Highlighter
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A highlighter is a form of marker pen which is used to highlight sections of documents in a vivid colour, while leaving the content beneath the marking unobscured. As such, highlighter ink is translucent. Usually the highlighted portion of a document will not show up if the highlighted paper is photocopied #redirect .
Styles
Many highlighters come in bright, often fluorescent colours. Being fluorescent, highlighter ink will glow under a black light [Highlighter Ink Glowing Under a Black Light]The most common colour for highlighters is yellow, but they are also found in pink, blue, green, and purple varieties.Highlighters are available in retractable form, [Retractable Highlighters from CompUSA] or with an eraser on the opposite end of the felt tip.[Eraseable Highlighter] Other types of highlighters include the "trilighter,"[Trilighter] a triangularly-shaped pen with a different-coloured tip at each corner, and ones that are stackable. [Stacking Highlighters]
There's also highlighters with smell, such as popcorn, strawberry, lime, etc.
Dry highlighters (occasionally called "dry line highlighters")[Dry Line Highlighter] are highlighters that, instead of having a felt tip, have applicators that apply a strip of highlighter tape, similar to audio cassette tape. Unlike standard highlighters, they are easily eraseable. [] They are to be distinguished from "dry mark highlighters"[Dry Mark Highlighter], which are sometimes advertised as being useful for highlighting the Bible.
Other Uses
- On rare occasions artists have used highlighters (including erasable highlighters)[Highlighter Art], either alone or in conjunction with other media, to make drawings.
- Word processing software has the ability to simulate highlighting capabilities by using a technique not dissimilar from reverse video on some terminals. Similar to this is the program Web Highlighter, allowing one to "attach highlighting, notes, and links to any Web page viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later."[Web Highlighting]
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