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All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts

colourlovers.com — For the last 100 years or so kids have been exploring and creating worlds of color with Crayons. For a lot of us, our life long love affairs with color began with these wax sticks and a blank sheet of paper. Here we go down crayon color memory lane with all 120 color names and hex codes, fun facts and photos.

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  • chadkouri, on 04/23/2008, -1/+7Yeah Crayons
    • rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -3/+2***** yea, CRAYONS! [picture of crayola pack crashing through a city here]
  • carolinaws, on 04/23/2008, -1/+25Awesome! Nice to have the Hex and RGB colors, too.

    Too bad there's no stats about how many crayons are eaten by kids (or adults). Of course those eaten crayons should be chased down with a nice jar of paste.
  • jggube, on 04/23/2008, -0/+5That is the most detailed story I've seen about crayons. The photos used in the story are also under the creative commons license so this post is just chuck full of inspiration and resource all in one place.
  • DeskFlyer, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4When I was a kid my mom told me the gold crayons had real gold in them.
  • Lutremi, on 04/23/2008, -0/+7When I was a kid I ate crayons. I mean, with names like Macaroni and Cheese, Asparagus, Eggplant, and Tumbleweed, they were just like the real thing, only less tasty and more disgusting.
  • amanilaenvelope, on 04/23/2008, -3/+3green is the awesomest color ever.
  • diggface5000, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3064 pack with the sharpener in the back FTW!
    that baby was the coach bag of grade school
  • bamafun, on 04/23/2008, -0/+10who doesn't love crayons?? I just wish they could come up with a crayon that wouldn't break.
  • andieaw, on 04/23/2008, -2/+2I love 2 use crayon in my childhood. But now i'd prefer coreldraw, lol! :P
    • daza, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Corel DRAW actually reminds me of my child hood, it's all we ever used in primary (elementary) school.
  • TEHxINTERWEBS, on 04/23/2008, -0/+19Did anyone, as a kid, think the white crayon was completely useless? The only time I used it was to draw stars on black paper...
    • TheSnuffster, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I never got it to work on black paper anyway :/
    • daza, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Well hey, isn't that a use? :)
    • celticchrys, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2I used it on top of other colors to make them lighter... like putting lighter streaks in something.
  • elizabethb221, on 04/23/2008, -1/+5Nah, man. You use the white Crayon to draw on easter eggs before you dye them.

    Did anyone else get hungry every time they used macaroni and cheese?
  • khaavren, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Anyone ever put crayons in the heating vents in the back of the classroom? bout 5 and the whole damn classroom would smell like burning wax. I was a creative little arson.
  • dtele, on 04/23/2008, -4/+1Crayons have HEX # codes?
    • hac13, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0Well...not in meat space, but it's fun to approximate. :/
  • dtele, on 04/23/2008, -0/+15# FFFFFF = most useless crayon ever
  • rdaly92, on 04/23/2008, -3/+0Awesome. My old math teacher is the grand-daughter (maybe great grand daughter) of the original founders.
  • mal1964, on 04/23/2008, -1/+12 Discontinued Crayola color names
    1. Prussian Blue (1949-1958)
    2. Flesh (1949-1962)
    3. Green Blue (1949-1990)
    4. Orange Red (1949-1990)
    5. Orange Yellow (1949-1990)
    6. Violet Blue (1949-1990)
    7. Maize (1949-1990)
    8. Lemon Yellow (1949-1990)
    9. Blue Gray (1958-1990)
    10. Raw Umber (1958-1990)
    11. Chartreuse (1972-1990)
    12. Ultra Blue (1972-1990)
    13. Ultra Orange (1972-1990)
    14. Ultra Red (1972-1990)
    15. Ultra Green (1972-1990)
    16. Ultra Pink (1972-1990)
    17. Ultra Yellow (1972-1990)
    18. Indian Red (1958-1999)
    19. Thistle (1949-2000)
    20. Torch Red (1998-2000)
    21. Mulberry (1958-2003)
    22. Blizzard Blue (1990-2003)
    23. Magic Mint (1990-2003)
    24. Teal Blue (1990-2003)
    25. I remember Sea Green (3rd from lower left, below) being called Seafoam Green when I was growing up, but I can't find evidence to support it.
  • xXdredgXx, on 04/23/2008, -9/+1*****
  • xXdredgXx, on 04/23/2008, -9/+1*****
  • xXdredgXx, on 04/23/2008, -9/+1Yes
  • xXdredgXx, on 04/23/2008, -9/+1YUP
  • lickmyback, on 04/23/2008, -11/+1How does this ***** make the front page? Seriously, I'm going back to Slashdot.
  • cuoops, on 04/23/2008, -2/+9Check this dude out. He carves crayons.
    http://www.petegoldlust.com/carvedcrayons.html
    • SteeleJK, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1^^ Great Link, thanks. All of this guys work is amazing.
  • AndrewDB, on 04/23/2008, -0/+6Anyone remember the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood where they showed how Crayola's are made?
    • neems25, on 04/23/2008, -0/+5I DOOOOOO....WOW....I forgot alll about that! It started with the close up of the girl looking at the tip of the crayon and then panning out to the factory.....SWEEET!
  • buddamus, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I still remember finding my crayons in the backseat of the car melted into a mess when i was a kid.
  • punkcat, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1bring back flesh!
  • weizilla, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3anyone ever notice macs have a crayon color palette as part of the system color selector?
  • dlm85, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I rarely seen the names on the labels. My dad was a custodian of a school, so I just had a shoe box full of crayon pieces he found.
  • matthewf01, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Every time I go to this bar/restaurant I grab a bunch of the little 4-packs of crayons on my way out; took em into the office and every day I draw a little scene on a post-it note using only those four colors and they've formed a huge collage on top of my desk cabinet. Pretty cool office art, and it keeps the murderousness at bay.
  • melonhedd, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0There are too many colors that are indistinguishable but have different names.
  • toekneebullard, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Hex codes are nice...but no computer monitor will give you that smell.
  • idriveajeed, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Does anyone else think that every box should have come with two red crayons instead of one? It was always the first color to get used up.
  • celticchrys, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I still have a box in a closet of the _old_ colors, before they renamed them things like "macaroni and cheese."
  • kmattso, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I ate a Neon Carrot crayon. I don't need nightvision goggles anymore.
  • HydrogenOxide, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1My favorite colors as a kid were Wild Watermelon, Cerulean, Shamrock, and Laser Lemon, in no particular order.
  • m4ttGT, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1what about "Republican" color?

    -Colbert Report
  • Khast, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1For some reason, the HEX codes for Silver, Gold, and Copper don't look right on my monitor.
  • matthewearly, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0Yes Yes... Pretty pretty colours... but more importantly... What do they taste like!! ;)
  • maryelawson, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Amazing article.

    The only other thing I could ask for would be CMYK codes, but you can always type in the RGB and convert it in Illustrator.
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