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means A marker filled with bright, translucent ink used to draw attention to important words on a page without obscuring them.
from From 'highlight,' which began life in the visual arts: the 'high lights' were the brightest spots in a painting, where the most light fell. By the 19th century 'highlight' had stretched to mean any standout feature worth emphasizing. The pen itself is a 20th-century invention — fluorescent, see-through ink that lets you 'light up' text while still reading it — and 'highlighter' simply names the tool that does the highlighting.
- glow trick
- Fluorescent dyes absorb UV and spit it back as color
- invented 1962
- Carter's Hi-Liter launched the neon-streak revolution
- chisel tip
- One end thin, one fat, by clever design
- reading paradox
- Highlighting too much defeats the entire purpose
- yellow rules
- Scans and copies cleanest, hence its dominance
stabilo boss — german highlighter brand, most popular globally since 1971, iconic yellow fluorescent marker
copic marker — japanese alcohol-based marker system used by professional illustrators and designers worldwide
textliner — staedtler's highlighter pen line, available in 10+ fluorescent colors since 1987