How a Fountain Pen Works (Fountain Pen 101)?

A fountain pen is like a water bottle that writes instead of drinking.

Inside a fountain pen is ink, just like how your juice box has juice inside it. This ink isn’t just sitting there, it’s ready to come out when you write.

When you press the tip of the pen against paper, something cool happens: a tiny tube inside the pen lets the ink flow down to the tip, like how water flows from your hose when you turn on the tap. This is called capillary action, it’s like when you dip a straw into a glass of water and some water climbs up the straw all by itself!

At the very end of the pen is the nib, which is like the straw of your juice box. It touches the paper, letting the ink flow out in neat lines, just like how you draw with a crayon or marker.

So when you write with a fountain pen, it’s like having a little water bottle that knows exactly when to give you ink, and it does it smoothly every time!