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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.

Increasingly rare in the digital era, handwriting has taken on a new potential to impress—and the design world is responding with power pens, standout stationery and other desktop objects of desire ...

Ballpoint technology was invented in the 1800s, but Uni-ball (originally the Masaki Pencil Manufacturing Company, founded in the late 19th century) didn’t produce its first ballpoint pen until 1959.