This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

Walk into any college lecture hall, and you’ll see a sea of laptops clicking away, accompanied by the occasional frantic scribble of a ballpoint. But every now and then, you’ll spot a glint of metal ...

A manufacturer reintroduced Dark Lilac, a limited-edition ink, to great fanfare. The only problem? The color had changed. By Scott Cacciola Lamy, a German pen manufacturer, made a recent splash when ...