If you conducted the anatomy of a fountain pen, Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson believes you would find, from cap to nib, a pink brain, a tangle of artistic clout, a reproductive organ, a pair ...

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 ...

There’s a different kind of comfort in things analog—like pen on paper, the feeling of leafing through pages, and fingers being able to brush over the strokes of words written on the page. The fact ...

When I started schooling more than seven decades ago, great emphasis was laid on good handwriting. We were made to do writing practice on a wooden board, called ‘takhti’ or ‘fatti’, carefully smeared ...

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