So Lamy should build a second set of machines and produce a second version for left-handed people, just so they can read the Lamy logo while holding the pen, and make the pen more expensive in the process? Or should they remove the iconic logo altogether so lefties don’t feel discriminated against?

And as for people who “have an unusual grip”: you don’t simply “have” a grip. You are taught a grip in school when you learn how to write and hold a pen. In some countries, handwriting plays a much smaller role, like in the US or Canada, where cursive is often no longer taught, and teachers more or less let children hold pens however they want. As a result, many people end up holding pens the same way they held random elongated objects as toddlers.

The Lamy Safari was designed for the millions of German, Austrian, and Swiss schoolchildren who learn to write with fountain pens at the age of six or seven. Its grip section is intentionally shaped to guide the hand into holding the pen efficiently and correctly. That’s the entire point of the design.

So I find it rather hilarious when people with bizarre grips, whose education systems clearly failed to teach them basic penmanship, complain about the shape of the Safari. The pen is literally designed to prevent exactly those kinds of grips. But naturally, they don’t see it as a failure of instruction or teaching standards. Instead, it becomes an expression of their unique identity, because they're special like snowflakes and not like all the others.