Crayola Super Tips 150 Review: 150 Washable Colors for Kids & Coloring

The first thing that stands out to me about the Crayola Super Tips 150-count set is simply how much color it puts in one box. This is not a small starter pack with a few variations of red, blue, and green. You get 150 unique shades, which makes the set especially appealing when you enjoy choosing very specific colors for coloring pages, doodles, school projects, hand lettering, and crafts.

I also like that Crayola keeps the marker itself simple. Each marker uses one shaped Super Tip rather than separate tips at both ends. Change the angle and amount of the tip touching the paper, and you can move between a thinner line and a broader stroke. That makes the set more versatile than an ordinary fixed fine-point marker without making every barrel bulky or complicated.

The washable formula is another major part of the appeal. For a family art table, classroom, or homeschool space, I would value easier cleanup far more than advanced marker features that younger artists may never use.

Who it is for

I think the 150-count Super Tips set makes the most sense for families, teachers, homeschoolers, kids, and casual adult colorists who want a huge range of colors in an easy-to-use format.

For kids, the attraction is straightforward: there are enough colors to make choosing a shade part of the fun. A green tree no longer has to use the same green as a frog, leaf, dinosaur, and shirt. With 150 colors available, children can experiment with lighter, darker, warmer, cooler, and more unusual variations without needing to mix anything themselves.

Teachers and homeschoolers may get even more value from the size of the set. Super Tips can move between coloring worksheets, posters, handwritten labels, simple diagrams, lettering, and art projects, while the washable formula is a practical advantage when markers are being passed around a shared table.

Adults should not dismiss them as kids-only markers either. I can see this being a very enjoyable budget set for cozy coloring books, simple journaling, doodling, planners, casual lettering, and low-pressure creative sessions where having lots of colors matters more than owning an artist-grade marker system.

What to know before you buy

The phrase “2-in-1 fine point and broad line” can be a little misleading if you are used to dual-tip art markers. These are not markers with one fine nib on one end and a different broad or brush nib on the other.

Instead, each Super Tip is shaped so the same nib can make narrower or broader marks depending on how you hold it against the page. I actually think that simplicity is part of the appeal, but it is important to know what you are buying.

The trade-off is specialization. A dedicated 0.3 or 0.4 mm fineliner will be easier to control inside extremely small mandala cells and tiny printed details. A true brush marker will give you more expressive tapered strokes and a different feel for lettering and shading. Super Tips sit between those extremes as a general-purpose coloring marker.

The other consideration is the sheer size of the collection. 150 markers take up space. If you normally work with 12 or 24 colors, this set can feel wonderfully generous at first and slightly chaotic later. I would create a simple swatch chart and organize the markers in a way that makes favorite shades easy to find rather than relying entirely on the cap colors.

Are Crayola Super Tips good for coloring books?

For many coloring books, yes. I think the Super Tip format is especially well suited to bold, cozy, cartoon-style, kids’, and medium-detail coloring pages where you regularly move between outlines, small decorative areas, and larger shapes.

The ability to change stroke width with one nib is useful here. You can use the narrower part of the tip around an eye, flower center, small leaf, or edge, then rotate the marker to cover a larger area more quickly.

For extremely intricate adult coloring books, I would still prefer a dedicated fineliner for the smallest spaces. And if smooth gradients and heavy blending are your main goal, a specialist brush or alcohol-marker system is a different category of tool.

Paper also matters with any marker. I would test an inconspicuous area before heavily layering color in a thin or double-sided coloring book, especially if preserving the reverse side is important.

150 colors vs the 100-count Super Tips set

The existing 100-count Super Tips set already gives most casual users a very large palette. The 150-count version makes the most sense when the extra color choice is the reason you are buying it.

I would choose the 150-count set for a classroom, a household with several people sharing supplies, or a colorist who genuinely enjoys having many near-neighbor shades available. Fifty additional colors can make it easier to choose a more specific pink, teal, green, brown, purple, or skin-adjacent neutral without trying to force one marker to do everything.

I would choose the 100-count set when storage space matters more, when the markers are for one child rather than a group, or when 100 colors already feels like more than enough. The underlying Super Tips concept is the same, so moving to 150 is mainly about palette breadth rather than a completely different drawing experience.

How it compares with artist markers

I would not buy Crayola Super Tips expecting them to replace a dedicated artist marker system.

Compared with dual-tip brush markers, the Crayola design is simpler. You do not get a flexible brush nib on one end and a precision tip on the other. Compared with alcohol markers, Super Tips are not aimed at the same smooth, saturated blending style. Compared with fineliners, they are less precise in very small details.

But those comparisons can miss why Super Tips are appealing in the first place. They are accessible, washable, colorful, and versatile. You can hand them to a child for a school project, use them for a casual coloring session, add a heading to a journal, or fill a craft table with color without treating every marker like a specialist art investment.

That is also why I think the 150-count pack has a clear place despite the huge number of competing marker sets online. It is not trying to be the most technical marker. It is trying to give you a lot of usable color in a familiar format.

The biggest advantages

The obvious advantage is the 150-color palette. With that many unique shades, you can spend less time trying to make a limited palette fit an idea and more time simply choosing the color you want.

The second advantage is the Super Tip itself. One tip handling both thinner and broader marks keeps the marker easy to understand while still giving you more control than a basic broad-line marker.

The third is washability. For kids, families, classrooms, and shared creative spaces, that practical benefit can matter more than advanced blending performance.

The main drawbacks

The biggest drawback is that versatility is not the same as precision. If your coloring pages are packed with tiny geometric cells, the Super Tip will not feel as controlled as a true fineliner. If your main hobby is brush lettering, a flexible brush nib will give you more natural stroke variation.

The size of the set can also work against it. A 150-color collection is only useful when you can find the colors you want. Swatching and basic organization become much more important once the marker count gets this high.

Finally, I would treat Super Tips as general-purpose washable markers rather than a shortcut to professional marker techniques. They are best when you buy them for what they do well instead of judging them against tools designed for a completely different kind of artwork.

Final verdict

I think the Crayola Super Tips 150-count set is one of the easiest large marker packs to recommend when your priorities are color variety, washability, versatility, and value.

The 150 unique colors are the star of the set, while the shaped tip makes each marker useful for more than one stroke width. That combination works particularly well for families, classrooms, homeschool art supplies, casual coloring, doodling, and everyday crafts.

I would choose it over the smaller Super Tips packs when I genuinely wanted the extra shades or expected several people to share the collection. I would choose a specialist fineliner, brush marker, or alcohol-marker set instead when precision or advanced blending mattered more than palette size and easy cleanup.