http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Isograph Posts tagged with 'Isograph' at MetaFilter. Thu, 01 May 2003 08:10:57 -0800 Thu, 01 May 2003 08:10:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/25487/Fountain%2DPen%2DMania <a href="http://www.pentrace.com/">Keyboards Are Not Like Nibs:</a> Fountain pens - or writing instruments in general - rule. Lately though, the main manufacturers have stooped to ballpoints, gels and other madnesses. Just as the stupid <a href="http://www.reuels.com/reuels/page407.html">calligraphy</a> fad killed proper handwriting, the main fountain pen manufacturers have been their own hangmen. I love <a href="http://www3.pelikan.de/english/pelikan/new/docs/index.php?target=schreiben#">Pelikan</a> but my main hearbreak is <a href="http://www.rotring.de/www.rotring.com/">Rotring</a>, whose <a href="http://www.rotring.de/www.rotring.com/products/drawing/c_rapigra.html">rapidograph</a> 0.10 and 0.18 and <a href="http://www.londonart-shop.co.uk/index.html?technical/tech-pens.html~mainFrame">isograph</a> 0.20 (<small>this latter line now sadly reduced to <a href="http://shopping.lycos.co.uk/detail.html?cat=509&recordID=1980en245266">college sets</a></small>) are my favourite scratching sticks. Are you <a href="http://www.1001pens.com/">holding a torch</a> for any of those legendary manufacturers (<a href="http://www.pensandwatches.com/parker.html">Parker</a>, <a href="http://www.1corporategift.com/watermanpens.html">Waterman</a>, <a href="http://www.cross.com/classpromo.asp?">Cross</a>, <a href="http://www.artstuff.net/calligraphy_pens_and_cartridges.htm">Schaeffer</a>, <a href="http://www.1corporategift.com/aurorapens.html">Aurora</a>, <a href="http://www.lamy.de/en/">Lamy</a> et caetera) who have gone <a href="http://www.pens.it/nettuno/">down the drain</a>? What glides your writing hand? Is the pseudish, unpardonably expensive and increasingly naff <a href="http://www.montblanc-pens.net/">Montblanc</a> the last pen manufacturer to uphold its own standards? When you do put pen to paper - if you still do at all - what's <b>your</b> stubborn choice? Damn it, you must use something to log into your <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/22858">Moleskine</a>! tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25487 Thu, 01 May 2003 08:10:57 -0800 Aurora Ballpoints Calligraphy Cross FountainPen Gels Handwriting Isograph Keyboard Lamy Moleskine Montblanc Paker Paper Pelikan Pen Rapidography Rotring Schaeffer Waterman WritingInstruments MiguelCardoso