Pen highlighter effect in css

Question

for a hyper realistic pen highlighter!
Play with the background gradients for the intensity and with text-shadow to give it a washed effect.

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span {
    padding: 0.6em 13.7px;
    line-height: 1.8em;
    font-size: 23px;
    font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial;
}
span.highlight {
font-weight: bolder;
background: linear-gradient(104deg, rgba(130, 255, 173,0) 0.9%, rgba(130, 255, 173,1.25) 2.4%, rgba(130, 255, 173,0.5) 5.8%, rgba(130, 255, 173,0.1) 93%, rgba(130, 255, 173,0.7) 96%, rgba(130, 255, 1732,0) 98%), linear-gradient(183deg, rgba(130, 255, 173,0) 0%, rgba(130, 255, 173,0.3) 7.9%, rgba(130, 255, 173,0) 15%);
padding: 0.6em 13.7px;
-webkit-box-decoration-break: clone;
margin: 0;
border-radius: 7.5px;
text-shadow: -12px 12px 9.8px rgba(130, 255, 173,0.7), 21px -18.1px 7.3px rgba(255, 255, 255,1), -18.1px -27.3px 30px rgba(255, 255, 255,1);
}

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