The present disclosure pertains to stylus' for electronic devices, and in particular, to passive stylus' with multi-faceted functionality. A passive stylus has a first end and a second end wherein at the first end, a first nib is present, and at the second end, a second nib is present. The passive stylus may be suited to effect communication with a touch-input device adaptable to receive input from both ends of the stylus. The touch-input device contains code, when executed, to cause the device to initialize a touch application, receive an indication of touch data, identify a tip pattern from the received touch data, and execute a set of pre-determined instructions associated with the identified tip pattern. Furthermore, the touch-input device includes aprocessing unit communicatively coupled to memory. The memory includes code to identify a tip pattern from a set of known tip patterns associated with touch data.