What Highlighter Are You Using Today?

[Aquaria]

Since I'm a college student, I'm always on the lookout for great highlighters, and I have tried several, with the accumulation of them to show for it.

 

Lately, I've been carrying either the Platinum Preppy highlighters (refillable FTW!), or the Kokuyo Beetle soft dual-color highlighters to class. The Kokuyo Beetles work the best with FP ink. Not perfect, but they don't smear too badly with Pilot Namiki Blue. I've been using the Tombow refillable highlighter ink in my Preppy, watered down to make it paler than the standard color. Jetpens sells the Tombow refills in bottle form, but the Tombow ink doesn't work so great with FPs. That's why a Preppy tags along on math class days, to highlight pencil notes.

 

I wish the Copic sketch markers didn't bleed through all but the thickest paper. Since they're alcohol-based, they don't smear FP ink at all. The paler shades won't show through on Rhodia and Clairefontaine, but their palest shades hardly show up at all on the page, which renders them useless as highlighters. The problem is that it can get expensive finding the right level of color that does its job of highlighting, without bleeding through. My search for that perfect intersection of color saturation/lack of bleedthrough continues...

 

[PaganArcher]

Though not a highlighter per se, I use a Lamy Al-Star with a 1.9mm italic nib with one of the Noodler's highlighter inks, usually Lightning Blue.

[Rosendust2121]

Tuesday Night, I used the Zebra Mildliner in Persimmon to divide(colorcode) notes with and use in conjunction with my Hobonichi Techno planner

[Conan the Grammarian]

I don't like highlighter bleed-through, so I generally use a highlighter pencil refill in a 5.6mm clutch.

 

You used to be able to get them from Levenger, but they don't seem to sell them anymore. They do still sell the clutch highlighter refills.

 

Staedtler has pencils that do the trick.

 

And E+M has clutches and highlighter refills.

 

They do go on kinda faint - so, if you like bright highlighting, this won't be for you.

[hinky]

Though not a highlighter per se, I use a Lamy Al-Star with a 1.9mm italic nib with one of the Noodler's highlighter inks, usually Lightning Blue.

I also use a Lamy (Vista) with a 1.9 mm italic nib. It just seems a lot neater than conventional highlighters. Also, it's easier to flush when I wanna change colors. Right now, I'm using J. Herbin Bouton D'or. I normally highlight textbooks and other printed reading materials so smudging isn't a problem for me.

When I do go over fp ink, it smudges a little but the writing is still legible; I usually just underline instead, and I use a TWSBI Eco (filled with J. Herbin Vert Reseda) for that. It also doubles as my pen for writing notes on margins.

[MilanKov]

I like to use mechanical pencil with highlighter pencil refills. Problem is my supplier stopped selling the refills so now I use Koh-i-noor dry marker pencil. The yellow and green are not bad.

[Zookie]

A yellow Sharpie Gel.

[Tasmith]

Staedtler Textsurfer classic. They're inkjet safe and work well on fountain pen ink too.

[kulms]

Just a normal 1$ highlighter from Wal-Mart