Neon Yellow Highlighters

Oh man, this is a highly important post.

Here's the question I lay out: Are yellow highlighters worth it?

For me, no. When you first use it, it's brilliant. Hard to believe that that color is an ink and not something more complicated. Then you come back and the outsides of the lines are getting dimmer, even brownish, at least in comparison to the original. The final product, at least after light exposure for a while, is a pale mustard color.

What good is the brightness if it doesn't stay that way? If it's going to fade, why not use a normal canary yellow marker made by crayola or something. The end result would be nicer. But we're trained to seek instant gratification.

It's hard NOT to in this society. Let me give an example. "I'm going to hold out on buying that computer since it will be outdated soon." Well that's always true, so you eventually have to get one. And if you want maximum satisfaction, then you need to want instant gratification when you get it brand new, and then gradually lower your expectations until the next time that you are reasonably ready to dish out the cash for a new one.

Let me give a breakdown of highlighter colors and the results after perhaps 3 months, with the lights on, or the page exposed, for 1 month of that time:
Pink: The most faded. So faint in some spots that I imagine it will disappear given enough time. None of it's original brilliance, but at least the final color is pretty.
Orange: The brightest and most fluorescent. However, the more quickly drawn spots are much more faded then slowly drawn sections, giving an overall crappy feel.
Yellow: You heard me. Not that faint, but as dull as it gets among the citrus colors. The fluorescence is completely gone, leaving the ugliest excuse for yellow.
Green: Lost it's fluorescence, and got duller, looks like a grass-colored watercolor stroke. It's the most consistent and fairly impressive in comparison to the losers.
Blue: The most impressive, although the original was not very bright. There is some splotchiness, as if the paper was splattered with a very fine spray of oil and the ink didn't settle well there. The color is darker, but is still the "same" color (didn't get grayish or anything).
Purple: In the same family of pink, it faded pretty badly but not as bad as pink. Still, sections will disappear over time, and unlike pink, the final color is dull and grayish. Like a stormcloud.

Rank (in this "final" state):
1st: Blue
2nd: Green
3rd: Orange
4th: Pink
5th: Purple
6th: Yellow

Interestingly enough, studies show that nice guys do not finish last. They finish 3rd in a field of 6. Much like Orange. I have no idea how the studiers measured niceness or how they decided in which proportions, nice, mean, and intermediate guys exist.