The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Handwriting can tell us a surprising amount about a person.

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 ...

You probably have no idea where the ink in your pen comes from, much less whether it’s a simple factory process or demanding of more expertise. Josh Velson, a chemical engineering consultant for bio ...

It’s hard to imagine a time when the now-ubiquitous rollerball and ballpoint pens were not around. But that was indeed the case before modern engineering brought first the ballpoint and later the ...