>> I think marker fading is an issue a lot of us have struggled with.<<
Believe it or not, the issue of fugitive colors is only a little younger than humanity. We started out with earth pigments, which are super stable: black (charcoal or black manganese usually), brown (ochres, umbers, clays), yellow (yellow ochre, some clays), red (red ochre), and white (kaolin or lime white). I got a drop of red ochre on a pair of shorts while cave painting, decades ago, and it never faded even a little.
But then people started using other things, often derived from plants or occasionally animals, which had more of a tendency to fade -- called fleeting or fugitive colors. Much later, some synthetics proved more colorfast. But lightfastness remains challenging to achieve. Much of the history of writing and art deals with finding colors that will stay put.
So I had an idea how to approach the issue.
>> In the past, I have compared regular fine point Sharpie against fine point Sharpie Extreme (fade resistant). The Extreme does last longer, but still not long enough. I didn't make notes at the time but I think it was something like 5-6 months longer? <<
I hadn't heard of that one. Potentially useful, though at this point I'm favoring the Sharpie oil paint.
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>> I think marker fading is an issue a lot of us have struggled with.<<
Believe it or not, the issue of fugitive colors is only a little younger than humanity. We started out with earth pigments, which are super stable: black (charcoal or black manganese usually), brown (ochres, umbers, clays), yellow (yellow ochre, some clays), red (red ochre), and white (kaolin or lime white). I got a drop of red ochre on a pair of shorts while cave painting, decades ago, and it never faded even a little.
But then people started using other things, often derived from plants or occasionally animals, which had more of a tendency to fade -- called fleeting or fugitive colors. Much later, some synthetics proved more colorfast. But lightfastness remains challenging to achieve. Much of the history of writing and art deals with finding colors that will stay put.
So I had an idea how to approach the issue.
>> In the past, I have compared regular fine point Sharpie against fine point Sharpie Extreme (fade resistant). The Extreme does last longer, but still not long enough. I didn't make notes at the time but I think it was something like 5-6 months longer? <<
I hadn't heard of that one. Potentially useful, though at this point I'm favoring the Sharpie oil paint.