We have had our green Colowave plates for 12 years and they have been through 6 moves (to Hawaii back and forth and cross country twice.) In all of those moves we have had maybe 3-4 chips due to rough handling. We have 8 place settings plus serving dishes, salt, pepper and the small square plates.
The we always use the dishwasher and the color has not faded at all.
We use them every day as our breakfast bowls, lunch and dinner plates.
I am very happy with this set of dishes.