quill pen

Adobe Stock lists 156,160 illustrations for “quill pen” as of 2026-08-29. The other tracked catalogues read 13,500 on iStock and 710 on Shutterstock. That is a 220× spread between the largest and smallest, so this phrase is stocked far more heavily on Adobe Stock than across the marketplaces evenly. For scale, that is above the median of 76,000 across the 4,009 phrases with a supply reading.

Adobe Stock flags 77% of its 156,160 illustrations for this phrase as AI-generated. That sits above the 76% median across the 1,383 phrases where Adobe publishes the flag. The flag is Adobe's own declaration on the asset, not an inference of ours, and it covers Adobe's catalogue only.

In the week of 2026-08-23, Google Trends put “quill pen” at 76% of its own 12-month peak — in the upper half of its own year. That index is rescaled per phrase, so every tracked phrase reaches 100 at its own busiest week; it says where this phrase sits in its own year, not how its search volume compares with another phrase's.

Sellers who publish for this phrase also tag their files “otniii quill pen”, “design”, “feather”, “drawing”, “background”, “element”, and 34 more — harvested from the live listings rather than suggested, so they describe how the subject is actually being framed for buyers. The phrase sits in the retro category.

The phrase is linked to Official Language Day on 2026-10-15, 41 days away. 4 further linked events are on the calendar within the tracked horizon.