Zebra Pen Mildliner Double Ended Highlighter Broad and Fine Tips Assorted colors 15-Count

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While some brands suggest that for best results you should use the pens on tracing paper or premium printing paper, like the Tombow Dual Brush pens, it really doesn’t make sense to test these pens on fancy paper as mostly we will use them in normal copy paper.

In my opinion, the mildliners come in a great color variety that can be an asset for bullet journalists and creatives who like to play with colors on the paper. I love the pastel color set especially and think that this one is pretty irreplaceable if I try to compare it with other inks I have here. While MILDLINER Double-Ended Creative Highlighters and Dual-Tip Brush Pens are a great creative tool all on their own, there are plenty of other Zebra Pen products that will help you maximize your creativity. Try pairing some of these other creative tools with the MILDLINER brand and let your imagination run free. However, none of these have as large a range of mild colors as Zebra. So as far as color variety goes, the mildliner zebra pens are on top of the list. If you think the bright highlighter colors are overrated then these pens will bring nicer fresher tones to your collection.Saturation occurs when you add one (or more) stroke(s) on top of another stroke or when 2 strokes of ink overlap on the paper.

However, the mildliners are not the only pastel highlighters around: Stabilo has a very popular set, so does Bic, Faber-Castell, Pilot Frixion, Staedtler many less famous brands too. The saturation of the mildliners leaves a trace where you can clearly see that two (or more) strokes have overlapped. While many people don’t like the aesthetics of it, what worries me is the fact that mildliners could bleed on the other side of the paper. If you want to use the mildliners just for highlighting bullet journals and littler decoration there are other brands that offer similar products such as Pilot Frixion, Bic, Stalilo, Propus, Muji, and a variety of cheap pastel highlighters that you can use. As you can see from the image there is slight ink ghosting on the other side of the paper, and a tiny little bit of bleeding from the beginning and end of the stroke where they saturate the paper a little more. In the second test I compared mildliners with other highlighters using the same writing pen (the Staedtler Pigment Liner) to see how much smudge they produced.

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The only one that didn’t smudge at all was the Staples hype highlighter. So I would say that here the mildliner was average compared to the other highlighters but most of them failed this test!