Update, bought these June 2020, it is now April 2021- These towels are holding up well, Colors have all stayed the same except the yellow has dimmed slightly but all others are same vibrant, I am actually happy the yellow slightly dimmed. No smell as I was having with the other microfiber bath towels I had purchased. These have/are working out great, I am not seeing wear or tear also which you see after many usages, so strong sturdy. I do use a detergent that has no dyes in it, I wash on cold water (microfiber does not do well in heat) and tumble dry on low, which does take longer in the dryer but worth it for these wonderful towels. Still a 5 star for these even after many months of usage.To explain where I am coming from, about 8 months ago I bought some micro-fiber towels (different than these) to try out. They were thinner, more like the microfiber you clean glasses or screens with. You can see the difference in texture on the picture with the purple towels, the lighter grey is the previous style. We got use to the blotting vs rubbing, but we loved that we could dry ourselves quickly and hang the towels vs a cotton towel, we would walk around a while with the towel wrapped around us as we were still wet and did not want to put clean cloths on until we were dry. This kept towels in bathrooms vs finding them in bedrooms or other weird places. This was awesome and we were sold on the microfiber bath towels. Due to the slimness we even changed up our bathrooms with simple hooks vs towel bars. Eight months had passed of heavy use of these towels, and using microfiber laundry soap, hang drying or no heat setting in dryer. They started to retain a smell, we tried using regular detergent thinking that might help but no they still stink.Loving the microfiber towels for the quick drying after a shower, we discussed maybe a different type of microfiber cloth (we use microfibers in a few places in the house and there are many types of microfiber textures) Our towels in our kitchen, which we bought about the same time, and get heavy use but we did buy many more of them, so it might be a rotation thing, do not have any sort of smell. So for our bath towels we decided to go with a texture similar to those. Which are these towels! We just barely had these arrive, so I will try to do an update a few months down the road, but lets get to my first impressions.Colors- oh wow the colors are amazing, We purchased the grey, yellow, green 6 pack and the Blue, brown, purple 6 pack. You get 2 of each of the colors. The grey is a bluish grey that fits almost any bathroom. The green is a sage green and yellow is more earthy so not too bright. The purple is a royal purple, it looks much lighter in description pictures, the blue is a very bold blue (we bought for the purple and brown) The brown is more of a milk chocolate color (I was hoping for a deeper brown, which I think they may have but it is with the lighter purple and blue) So the earthier (green, yellow, brown) we have in one bathroom and the bold purple, blue, grey (now this grey could have matched the earthy set, so if just getting one pack and you want an earthy feel for your bathroom, go with the yellow, green and grey set)Size- perfect even if you wanted to wrap around you, but as I said with the microfibers we just dry, hang, and get dressed, no need to wrap, but if you wanted to, yes these are 3 inches shorter than the average xl towels but with out the bulkiness it is easy to tuck in and will stay if you really want to wrap. (I use to be a wrapper so I understand the size issue, I think that is why I still get such large towels, maybe I should look into slightly smaller as these do seem over kill, yes it took me a review to realize this size thing is ingrained from years of cotton towel use)absorbency- I do have a separate hair towel, very thick hair and I do walk around with my hair in that towel for awhile so this review is just for face and body. After fully drying off (less than 1 min to do) Towel still seemed dry, but I know it took off a ton of water, it did feel slightly heavier so I know the water was in it. So great absorbency. I will say from my previous microfiber towels where you put on and blotted, this could move more like a terry or cotton towel but not quite, I guess it is half way between the two types. So if this is your first body microfiber, I would say to get use to blotting, but if you had the type we had previously, this is a welcome change as it doesn't stick as strongly to your body and you can move the towel a little to wipe vs pure blotting. Still dried my body just as quick, one swipe in each area and all water gone as with all microfibers that I have ever used. So I guess no surprise there. Our old ones you could see where they were darker (more water) to lighter (dry part of towel) This I am not sure as I can not tell it even has water in it besides the weight.Texture-very soft, and fuzzy, with these being microfiber (which grabs everything *why it grabs water off your body so well) I plan to only wash with the other body towels, not with my kitchen or dog microfiber towels.Hanging- These have their hanging tab in the middle of the long way! This so far is my only con about these towels, I personally have hooks so they can hang down fully, so I will be getting some ribbon and sewing a hook on 1 corner. If you have a towel bar in your bathroom, this would not even faze you.As I said before, our last towels got a smell that we can not get out, so this time, I bought enough to wash each towel after 2 days which is higher rotation (previous towels 7 days) so stay tuned for an update after a few months, fingers crossed that it will still be a 5 star rating. Don't forget to buy a hand towel or two that matches, I will need to do that, forgot to get a few hand towels.