These are great highlighters, as I expected, and there is a nice selection of colors I haven’t seen elsewhere (dark blue and red among them).

They do tend to bleed through very thin paper when using the darker blue and the red, but I usually will just put a sheet of paper behind what I am highlighting

The purple and the darker blue can make the text a bit difficult to read

I love that they are retractable, but I do not like the dark blue, red, and dark pink

The red color and dark blue are very dark on your words, I wouldn't recommend using those colors to highlight with- only color with.

The red, dark blue and purple colors are simply too dark for most of my applications, making the text difficult to read

The dark blue and purple are just too dark.

My only gripe is with the dark blue, only because it's too dark to

As some folks have mentioned, the purple and dark blue are very dark, and it can be difficult to read text through them.

They would have been better to keep off the darker blue and purple and through in extra yellow (or one of the other light colors).Pros:+Retractability (new word) works and makes these markers simpler and

No more dried out markers, and no more looking for missing caps.- Nice wide variety of colors, though I wouldn't recommend the dark blue or the purple as a highlighter (too dark to see text

Love the retractable feature, but the darker blue, pink and purple are too dark to read though and if they go under the document camera, only the orange, yellow and pink can be read, the others I might as well have used a black Sharpie to highlight them.

The dark blue and read are too dark to use as highlighters

The darker colors (blue, purple, red) aren't dark at all

the colors are fairly dark and red and dark blue can start to just look like you're using regular markers.

The darker colors (purple, red, dark blue) are lasting way better but the lighter ones don't

I only really like the red, dark blue, and dark purple but these a generally good highlighters

I think the dark purple and dark blue are a little too dark for highlighting but the rest are nice!

Darker colors like- red, dark blue and even red are more like felt sketch pens than highlighters

The dark blue, red, and magenta are too dark for highlighting

Orange is OK, but the red, dark blue, and purple are just too dark,

I think the dark blue and red are fine, but the purple is far, far too dark.

The dark blue and purple are like the red, too dark for a highlighter

The red, dark blue, and purple (?) are more like markers....

The dark blue is a little heavy, but otherwise these are great highlighters

A few shades are so dark (blue, red) that the hilighted text becomes unreadable.

the red, dark blue, and magenta are just

The darker blue and the purple ones mostly

(The yellow is a SUPER bright neon.)The other colors are good, although the red, fuchsia, and darker blue are pretty dark - you need to make sure you only use them on very dark text or type or they will partially obscure the words

Bought these for my work (I'm a Registered Nurse) and primarily use the dark, bold colors (the red, purple, and dark blue) for things.

The colors are so unique and brilliant but the red one and the dark blue is too dark for highlighting

I detract 1 star b/