Kaweco Sport Neon Yellow Highlighter / Fountain Pen Review

[@tsherbs1309]

I appreciate your content. With this video, though, I kept waiting for you to demonstrate the highlighter on some standard printed text in a book or printout in copy paper--where highlighters are most often used.

[@WhatIInk]

Interesting... I haven't read a printed book in years. And I almost never print anything on copy paper anymore. I guess some people still do.

[@elitestarquake3597]

I second this comment. I have been looking for a fountain pen highlighter to use with books and printed documents for work. My guess is that the ink will bleed through a lot because it looks wet. That’s been my experience with Noodler’s Dragon’s Napalm and Hellfire, but if this pen is built to be a highlighter perhaps it will spread the ink out so it dries faster. Great video - thank you!

[@tsherbs1309]

@@WhatIInk Students! And teachers (which I am)

[@Blove0130]

I agree! This pen I think was made for folks that want to highlight when they are studying etc., not for highlighting when they are writing with other fountain pen inks.

[@CheerfulPessimist686]

@@WhatIInk I would think that fountain pen users are more likely than not to be among the people who are highlighting printed material.

[@WalterWorldSkills]

13:33 Years ago I bought Noodler's Year of the Golden Pig, which happened to come with a highlighter Preppy. It's terrible. If I store it tip up, it's completely dry when I need to use it, so I have to keep it tip down for several minutes until the ink flows back to the tip. Then I decided to store it horizontally; the tip remained wet, but now the felt tip has mold on it :-/ I'm probably switching to a calligraphy nib, like the one on that Kaweco.

[@jorge23483]

Ah, the fountain pen highlighters... the first I tried was a wingsung 3008 with a 1.9 stub lamy nib... then I saw on Amazon a Preppy highlighter 😅... the only highlighter ink I have by the moment is the Pelikan 4001 yellow highlighter ink... but your suggestion of usin herbin or other light satured ink instead is a brilliant idea. Thank you for the video and the suggestion 😀👍.

[@TweakMDS]

Thanks for this! Some remarks... I really like this video, as it kind of shows a fun side of fountain pens. At 14:50 you mention the inks are nearly identical, but on my monitor, the Kaweco highlighter looks miles and miles brighter and more saturated; certainly a much better look in my eyes. The Kaweco ink doesn't appear to be available in a bottle, but Pelikan also has highlighter ink that they shipped together with the M205 highlighter special edition. Pelikan yellow highlighter seems to be even more extreme neon yellow, but they also have a green available. Good tip on the preppy though, I didn't know that existed but now I have to look for it...

[@WhatIInk]

It's probably due to the fact that the Kaweco ink was freshly wet. On paper, with real eyes, they are virtually impossible to tell apart. The Noodler's is very bright. Fun fact: they *both* also glow under UV light.

[@mhsvz6735]

Thank you for another excellent review!

[@willlensink5892]

I bought this and had to do nib tuning to get it to work as well. Out of the box the nib was useless.

[@harisivakumar207]

Hey, Alan! Your video about experimenting Kaweco Highlighter with different types of inks makes me aware on what I'm about to use. Great content. Also, not to be super biased about this, but your printed writing style is much neater than cursive. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just saying. I used both printing and cursive when writing with fountain pens, so that never bothered me in the slightest. Once again, I appreciate the content...

[@WhatIInk]

Glad it was helpful! My cursive is about as bad as it gets, so the bar is set quite low.

[@anguswhite8233]

Wow!: that Kaweco hi-liter ink is something else!; notice quite a few less than complimentary comments about your writing: for what it’s worth, I think it’s aesthetically pleasing - beauty is in the eye of the beholder; two requests: love Japanese pens, please review one of them soon(pretty much every pen I’ve got was brought to my attention by you!) and you did promise us a brown ink review a while back: love your ink vids!:)

[@WhatIInk]

I have tons of Japanese pens... I guess I have to get them into the review cycle. The brown ink comparison will be the next ink review video, but it's a while away (as you can see I don't do many of those as they are much more work than a normal video). Thanks for watching!

[@thomasfrater855]

When will the world accept that all pens from the Kaweco Sport line (Skyline, Al, Brass, Classic...) need to be posted? It is not a downside, it is the purpose.

[@fabianhempel188]

Well but didn't you just test the resistancy of your ink samples to the highlighter ink rather than the functionality of the pen? I mean, most of these inks would certainly smear when confronted with a normal highlighter as well

[@WhatIInk]

Yes... and I stated as such.

[@Volkmannx]

🤓👍