Before the ballpoint pen came into fashion, the fountain pen was used to draw ink from an internal reservoir so that a person could write or draw on a piece of paper or another surface. In the ...

The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman. Before the invention of the typewriter, most legal documents had to be handwritten and took a long time ...

Thicker ink meant it didn't smudge as easily as its predecessor, the fountain pen—but it also made writing by hand more physically demanding.

Montblanc's become very well known for its many popular limited edition and limited series fountain pens over the last couple of decades, and one of the most interesting to a serious fountain pen ...

The best pens on Amazon include fine-line pens beloved by bullet journalers, a quick-drying ballpoint that’s great for lefties, a pen used by astronauts, and a disposable fountain pen from Uni ...

There are several popular types of pens, but when it comes to the best pens for note-taking, your best bets are ballpoint, rollerball, or gel pens that distribute ink evenly and don't easily bleed ...