Scriveiner's Journal

Introducing the Scriveiner Daily Pen

Two years in the making The Daily pen is the result of two years of design work. It began as a reimagined Classic, our bestselling pen, and gradually became a pen of its own: slimmer, cigar-shaped,...

The First Scriveiner Notebook

Why a pen company made a notebook Scriveiner has made pens since 2019, and we have loved writing for a good deal longer. Over those years, it became hard to ignore that we were offering good pens w...

How Pen Weight and Balance Affect Writing Comfort

Pick up two pens that weigh exactly the same on a scale, and they can feel completely different in the hand. One might sit comfortably through a long writing session; the other starts to feel heavy...

Notebook Sizes: A4, A5, A6 and B5 Compared

"A5" and "B5" get thrown around constantly when people talk about notebooks, but most of us have only a rough sense of what those letters and numbers actually mean in the hand. Knowing the real dim...

How to Choose a Pen for Work, Meetings and Notes

A good work pen isn't about which one looks the most impressive in a meeting, it's about whether it keeps up with how you actually work. Some days that means jotting a quick note before you forget ...

Why Fountain Pen Ink Bleeds Through Paper and How to Fix It

You're writing along, everything feels fine, and then you flip the page over and see it: ink that's gone straight through to the other side. Bleed-through is one of the most common frustrations fou...

What Is a Rollerball Pen? A Guide to How It Works and How to Choose One

A rollerball pen is a writing instrument that uses a small rotating ball in its tip to draw water-based ink from an internal reservoir onto the page. That ink is thin enough to flow with very lit...

Fountain Pen Paper Thickness: Is 100 GSM Enough?

If you've spent any time shopping for notebooks, you've probably seen GSM printed somewhere on the packaging and had no real sense of what it means for how the pen will actually feel on the page. I...

How Fountain Pen Friendly Paper Affects Your Writing

After the festive season, with several new notebooks and journals finding their way onto my desk, I was reminded once again how differently paper responds to variations in nib size and ink formulat...

Re-Freshman Year: If We Went Back to School Now, We Would Do This

In this article, we discuss how we would approach academia years if we went back to school knowing what we know now. We support our notion with research and a personal word. And yes, there is indee...