LAMY Safari Cosy Fountain Pen 020

The LAMY Safari Cosy Fountain Pen 020 addresses the entirely modern tragedy of handwriting: every useful pen on the desk looks as though it was issued by a regional insurance office. This 2022 special edition arrives in strong strawberry red, with matching red details across the clip, cap, and spacer ring. It is stationery with the volume turned up, but without turning into a novelty pen shaped like a cactus.

LAMY gives the colorway a proper fountain-pen foundation: a polished stainless-steel nib, ergonomically shaped grip, and ASA-plastic body. The selected US listing specifies an EF nib, so this is a deliberate pick for someone who knows that nib preference is not a minor administrative detail. It is also a modestly sized object at 12 x 12 x 144 mm and 16 g, rather than a desk ornament that happens to contain ink.

The supplied blue T 10 cartridge means it can start as a straightforward cartridge pen. Bottled-ink people—the sort who own ink names more poetic than their retirement plans—can use LAMY’s recommended Z 28 converter instead. That flexibility helps justify the special-edition status without pretending that a red pen can solve the existential dread of taking meeting notes.

Our verdict: buy it for the color, the specific nib choice, and the pleasure of making a mundane tool mildly ridiculous in the best way. The cream Cozy edition exists, but this strawberry version is the one for a desk that has endured enough gray already.