Comments on: What is your favorite highlighter?

Question: What is your favorite highlighter?

coolhappysteve — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:14:56 -0800

The best commonly-available highlighter?

Highlighters have such a proclivity for crappiness; what's your favorite that I can pick up at the local stationer?

Also, how has this question never been asked - so many pen threads, no highlighter-love!

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:27:31 -0800

I have enjoyed the Sharpie Accent Retractable Highlighter. Quick drying on a very glossy textbook.

By: goo

goo — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:41:47 -0800

The Stabilo Boss Luminator is my current favourite.

By: goo

goo — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:43:21 -0800

But these look pretty cool, I have to say.

By: sperose

sperose — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:55:12 -0800

Those Sharpie retractable highlighters can be quite awesome.

I really like the Sharpie accent non-retractable ones (the one I have I stole from my roommate). I also really like thePost-it flag highlighter.

Highlighters I absolutely CANNOT FUCKING STAND are these cheap ass Foray highlighters that my dad bought, thinking that all highlighters are the same. They do nothing but smear and leak and suck all around.

By: NoraCharles

NoraCharles — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:08:39 -0800

Yeah, I'm gonna second the "no" on the liquid highlighters. They look kinda cool, but tend to leak and don't dry as quickly.

By: bink

bink — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:23:08 -0800

I like the Briteliner Grip highlighters. They're the size of pens, not magic markers, and lay down a nice even line in a greenish yellow color that jumps out at you.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:24:45 -0800

I like sperose's post-it flag highliters too except as soon as you get into the flagging groove, you're out of flags but not out of highlighter, and I have tried but not succeeded in refilling the flags.

By: robinpME

robinpME — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:35:16 -0800

I **love** the Zebra Zazzle 10 pack. They are so pleasing. The colors are nice (and unusual!), the liquid ink is super smooth, and the barrel is slim like a pen. Very nice.

By: deinemutti

deinemutti — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:39:26 -0800

I've always liked the Sanford Major Accents. The ink doesn't poop out very quickly and it leaves a nice, even line. Personally, I prefer the non-yellow ones since they're a little more visible to me on the page.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:54:55 -0800

Seconding the Zebra Zazzle pack.

By: Telf

Telf — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:08:05 -0800

I have to second the Sanford Major Accents. They're pretty standard looking but seem to last the longest and have a nice bright ink. Too many highlighters crap out after a day's use. I also dislike yellow highlighters that are just a plain dark yellow and not "neon" enough.

I hate the visible liquid highlighters because they always seem to stop working even though they obviously still have liquid in them.

I snagged a few Bic Duos from work and have been using those for notetaking.

According to the Bic Website they are designed:

For today's fast paced and always on-the-go lifestyle of professionals and students who are constantly fumbling with two writing instruments, one to take notes and the other to highlight important information during business meetings, the new BIC DUO™ ball pen and highlighter provides a novel solution to this problem by instantly changing from a ballpoint pen to highlighter with a simple twist of the pen's barrel.

I'm not sure about that, but they are pretty handy and I haven't had one run out on me yet.

By: bibbit

bibbit — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:28:11 -0800

This is no help at all, since I can only seemingly find these through the office supply company we use at work (Corporate Express), but their generic brand yellow highlighter is actually a goldenrod color, which I so much prefere to any of the yellow neon-types you can buy in regular stores. I just buy regular highlighters on my own and swap them with the ones at work. I also like that they're pen-sized, not marker-sized. Much easier to carry around.

So...not to highjack, but anyone know where I can find my own supply of goldenrod-yellow highlighters?? Won't be at this job forever...

By: reenum

reenum — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:21:42 -0800

Back in law school, I was a highlighting fiend out of necessity. I found that if I ever needed to copy highlighted documents, then yellow was the best color to use. It doesn't darken the underlying text to the point that it is unintelligible when copied. With pink or green, there would be dark patches on the copied pages.

You may not copy highlighted pages for others, but if you do, it's something to consider.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:46:38 -0800

Back in the Dark Ages, I used one that wins for the best name:
The Yellow-Billed Wordpicker.

By: cholly

cholly — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:54:23 -0800

I really don't think you can go past the original Stabilo Boss highlighter. I use only them. The best part about the top of them is that they don't split and go all hairy like some other brands do, they last for ages and the ink dries ast.

By: messylissa

messylissa — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:23:07 -0800

As a college student, I LIVE by the Sharpie retractable highlighters. They dry quick, make that oh-so-satisfying squeaky noise on a glossy page (a must for me), and that clicky top gives you something brainless to do while you read.

By: chickletworks

chickletworks — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:15:12 -0800

Thirding Zazzle. The ink dries quickly and generally doesn't soak through the page. I dunno if I'd spring for the big package, though... the tips of the lighter colors do tend to pick up ink and become darkened/ smudgy.

By: gilsonal

gilsonal — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:11:54 -0800

Big fan of the Sharpie. I go through tons of them, and have to make a special trip to a far away store just to get them. I am pretty sure the clerk thinks Im nuts, but its the only one i found that doesnt go through thin textbook paper

By: ThatSomething

ThatSomething — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:37:46 -0800

Also a big fan of the Sharpies -- both retractable and non.