• Typefaces & Fonts throughout my life

    Typefaces & Fonts throughout my life

    From printed books to words glanced on an Apple Watch, typefaces have shaped how I read and write for as long as I can remember, a fascination recently renewed by Simon Garfield’s stories of Albertus, Baskerville, and Comic Sans. Though this is a blog about fountain pens, type design belongs here too—because whether ink meets…

  • Sold off so many pens

    I kind of went crazy buying fountain pens after COVID-19 hit a few years ago. It was a lot of fun trying out so many pens—from $2 pens to a few $600 pens and many more priced in between I’ve now sold most of them on eBay, but I still have plenty of pens. I…

  • A better pangram than Quick Brown Fox

    Just a quick note regarding the “Quick brown fox” pangram that’s been used for so long. It’s boring. There’s a much better phrase that uses each letter of the alphabet. Grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen. This pangram comes from Garry Eves’, who has an excellent YouTube channel. All credit goes…

  • Let’s start this…

    Hi Pen Fans! I’m throwing my two bits on fountain pens, inks, paper, and related sundries. Hopefully, someone will find my comments interesting, perhaps amusing, and hopefully, at times, helpful. The short bio: I’ve always been a fan of fountain pens. I grew up in Germany, where fountain pens remain a primary writing device. However,…