Sharpie Clear View is the school-highlighter king.

Sharpie Clear View highlighters are the best pick for school: chisel tip, fast-drying ink that barely smears, and a huge ink reservoir that lasts ages.

The chisel tip gives you both a thick underline and a thin precise mark, so you’re not swapping pens just to annotate. The ink is smear-resistant in real life, not just on the box — it dries fast enough that you can highlight a page and turn it immediately without dragging lines across your notes. And the clear barrel isn’t a gimmick; you can see exactly how much ink you have left, so you’re never caught empty before a final.

Stabilo Boss is the classic alternative, and it’s brilliant on standard printer paper. But on thin notebook pages it bleeds through more, and its