Crayola Washable Broad Line Markers, and Coverage Rate

Broad line is a coverage decision. The nib lays down more dye per stroke than any other Crayola washable nib, which fills a colouring page quickly and cannot follow a printed outline. It is the classroom default for exactly that reason, and 25 broad line markers in this catalogue carry buyer-topic data behind them.

A broad line marker is bought for how fast it covers, not for how precisely it draws. Everything else about it is the same washable Crayola dye found across the range. See how crayola markers are tested here for the range as a whole; this page is about the widest nib in it.

Crayola washable broad line markers carries 250 searches a month at keyword difficulty 1 and grew 147.4% year on year. Crayola broad line markers carries 200 and crayola broad line ultra clean washable markers 450. The Crayola family around them runs to 1,040 keywords and 44,380 searches a month, second only to alcohol markers among the clusters on this site.

The nib is a throughput decision

Twenty-five broad-line Crayola listings carry buyer-topic data here, against seven fine-line ones. Broad line is what appears on a school supply list, and it is sold in 8-count boxes, 12-count boxes, 200-count classpacks and 256-count classpacks.

What a wide nib gives you is area per stroke. A toddler colouring a whole page will finish it; the same page with a fine nib takes four times as long and produces four times as many complaints. What it takes away is any ability to stop at a printed line. Both effects are visible in the reports, and neither is a defect.

Where washable dye goes

Five clean works cells: paper at 40 searches a month, glass at 1,480, ceramic, skin at 750 and car glass at 500. Fabric is conditional at 1,360, washing out of most cotton and not out of everything. Cardboard is conditional at 410 because the flute absorbs unless the stroke is light, which is a specific warning for a broad nib on a cereal box. Metal is conditional at 260, plastic at 80, whiteboard at 500. Wood, stone and chalkboard fail.

Cardboard is the cell worth reading twice on this page. A broad nib delivers more ink per second than a fine one, so the light-stroke condition is harder to meet.

What buyers reported

Washability on the broad-line range is the standout number: 1,906 mentions, 250 negative, a 13% rate, better than the 21% across all washable products. "These are the only markers I have found to be truly washable. They also come off of furniture too if you wipe them within a couple of minutes," wrote one buyer of an 8-count bold set. The honest caveat came from another buyer of the same product: "My 18-month-old loves these, a little too much. They are washable, but I would suggest laundering any clothes that day."

Quality on the range draws 1,952 mentions with 357 negative, an 18% rate, and value for money 1,354 with 180 negative, 13%. Those are low negative rates for this corpus. The complaint that does show up is colour variety at 935 mentions and 248 negative, 27%, which is mostly people wanting shades an 8-count box does not contain.

The failure mode is drying. Across washable products, drying time draws 872 mentions with 628 negative, a 72% rate. "I went in to check it out sure enough the brand new markers were all dried out and barely working. Such a big disappointment," wrote one buyer of a 12-count broad-line pack.

What to buy

The catalogue holds 96 washable markers at a median price of $14.54 and a median rating of 4.7.

Crayola Ultra Clean Washable, 40 count at $14.99, is rated 4.8 across 31,918 ratings and mixes nib types. Amazon Basics sells 40 broad-line washable markers at $11.99, which is $0.30 a pen at 4.5. Cra-Z-Art sells 60 at $17.29, or $0.29 a pen, also 4.5. On per-pen price Crayola is beaten by both; on rating it leads at 4.8 against 4.5, and it carries 850,149 ratings across its 194 catalogue products against 282,850 for Amazon Basics across 23.

Buying for a classroom

Classpacks are the cheapest route and the reports are about logistics rather than ink. "This was a great way to get a ton of markers for our Christmas in Mexico boxes. Had enough to send 10 colors to 20 different kids," wrote one buyer of a 200-count pack. Against that, drying complaints cluster on bulk boxes opened months after purchase. Buy the pack size that matches a term, not a year.

Ultra Clean is a range, not a nib

Crayola prints Ultra Clean on both broad-line and fine-line packs, and the term shows up in the search data attached to both: crayola broad line ultra clean washable markers carries 450 searches a month. It names the most soluble version of the washable dye rather than a different nib, so it changes the washability column and nothing about coverage rate. If the buyer is a toddler and the surface is a painted wall, that range is the one to look for. If the buyer is an adult filling a poster, the nib matters and the range name does not.

Broad line against Super Tips

Crayola's Super Tips range sits between the two nibs and is the fastest-growing term in this family at 600 searches a month, up 448% year on year. It is fine enough for a colouring book and forgiving enough for a child, which is why it now carries 43,050 ratings, the largest count of any washable marker in this catalogue. If you are choosing for a household rather than a classroom, that middle nib is usually the better buy, and this page will say so rather than defend the wider one.

How this page decides

Counts here are row totals from 17,314 buyer-topic summaries across 4,486 products. Prices are read at build time and go stale. The method is at how we review.

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