
Everyday Things · Built from a recipe
Fountain Pen
C5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 510.5 Hz.
A fountain pen carries its own ink inside.
- Shelf
- Everyday Things
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 510.5 Hz, 43 cents flat of C5. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1511 Hz
- 2624 Hz
- 3773 Hz
- 4937 Hz
- 5954 Hz
- 61025 Hz
- 71100 Hz
- 81138 Hz
- 91243 Hz
- 101298 Hz
- 111394 Hz
- 121403 Hz
- 131463 Hz
- 141464 Hz
- 151529 Hz
- 161567 Hz
How to play
Tap it to uncap the pen and write a swirl in wet blue ink.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncap and write | Tap | ||
| Write | Button |
About it
A fountain pen carries its own ink inside. The ink runs from the barrel through a thin channel called the feed to a split metal nib, and the slit draws it down to the paper by capillary action, the same pull that lets a paper towel soak up water.
This one is made from a detailed 3D model of a real green pen. Tap it and the cap slides off and clicks onto the back end, the nib writes a looping swirl that shines while it is wet and dries darker, and the cap goes back on. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull the cap off the nib yourself and push it onto the back end, where it clicks on turned around, the way people post a cap while they write.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 88,630 at Low, and up to 351,429 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Fountain pen in translucent green (maker's marks painted out, cap moved) | chemicalX | CC BY 4.0 |



