When was the last time you held a pen in your hand to write a greeting card or fill the pages of a journal? With our smartphones and laptops the mainstays of our lives, it won’t be surprising if you ...

The fountain pen as a practical writing instrument has been declared obsolete numerous times. It was supposedly doomed by the innovations of the drip-free ballpoint pen and the typewriter, then the ...

SINGAPORE — Every morning, 56-year-old Rick Ho spends three hours improving his handwriting. With his fountain pen, he copies his favourite passages or quotes from books in cursive script. Describing ...

There are a couple of companies that use robots to send handwritten messages on paper from your phone. The only bad thing is that they have been using canned typefaces until now: Bond has a new robot ...

This month marks 80 years since one of the most influential yet underrated inventions burst onto the market in New York on ...

Frank Zhang, president of historic Italian pen manufacturer OMAS, is helping to innovate within the writing instrument ...

BEING left handed, I used to find it difficult, not to say messy, to use a fountain pen. BEING left handed, I used to find it difficult, not to say messy, to use a fountain pen. My hand would ...

A fine fountain pen is a lifetime companion, but even a well-engineered, low-cost refillable rollerball should be desirable enough to make you want to keep it around. Here’s our guide to the ...

Among the obituaries of a former Conservative Minister a few years ago, there was one delightful snippet. A line in The Daily Telegraph described how, when she received the letter from Mrs Thatcher ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that serious, but if ...

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