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- diggface5000, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3064 pack with the sharpener in the back FTW!
that baby was the coach bag of grade school - 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. - 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...
- dtele, on 04/23/2008, -0/+15# FFFFFF = most useless crayon ever
- 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. - 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.
- jeffmon, on 04/23/2008, -0/+8What made the Ultra colors so "ultra"?
- 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.
- cuoops, on 04/23/2008, -2/+9Check this dude out. He carves crayons.
http://www.petegoldlust.com/carvedcrayons.html - AndrewDB, on 04/23/2008, -0/+6Anyone remember the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood where they showed how Crayola's are made?
- kakwakas, on 04/23/2008, -0/+6Ellipses to you, too, sir.
- chadkouri, on 04/23/2008, -1/+7Yeah Crayons
- 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!
- 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.
- mal1964, on 04/23/2008, -0/+52. Flesh (1949-1962)
This color was a major deal. - chinolofus, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4they were ultra.
- SteeleJK, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4Prussian Blue = white nationalist folk duo
Indian Red = not PC
Flesh = kind of morbid
Chartreuse = the name of a liqueur
Maize = native Indian word for corn
[color]+[other color] = dumb names for colors - 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? - DeskFlyer, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4When I was a kid my mom told me the gold crayons had real gold in them.
- weizilla, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3anyone ever notice macs have a crayon color palette as part of the system color selector?
- celticchrys, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2I used it on top of other colors to make them lighter... like putting lighter streaks in something.
- 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.
- Zippo, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1http://www.crayola.com/colorcensus/history/chronol ...
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1Well hey, isn't that a use? :)
- 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. - 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!
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1Corel DRAW actually reminds me of my child hood, it's all we ever used in primary (elementary) school.
- GumdoMike, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1It's what toddlers crave...
- TheSnuffster, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2Cheerio
- mal1964, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Flesh was also not PC because the color shade was Caucasian skin
" the old Crayola sets that contained the infamous "flesh" colored crayon. That "color" was changed from "flesh" to "peach" in 1962 when Crayola admitted that flesh came in more than one color"
http://www.runet.edu/~archive/season08/vent/storie ...
Chartreuse = the name of a liqueur, was not the same color as the liqueur, but yes the same name which was dumb - TheSnuffster, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I never got it to work on black paper anyway :/
- mal1964, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Higher price.
- toekneebullard, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Hex codes are nice...but no computer monitor will give you that smell.
- Khast, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1For some reason, the HEX codes for Silver, Gold, and Copper don't look right on my monitor.
- 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.
- 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."
- ozonew4m, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1You can find CMYK color codes at http://www.color-chart.org
- 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.
- brjndr, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Idiocracy FTW
- 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 - SteeleJK, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1^^ Great Link, thanks. All of this guys work is amazing.
- kmattso, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I ate a Neon Carrot crayon. I don't need nightvision goggles anymore.
- amanilaenvelope, on 04/23/2008, -3/+3green is the awesomest color ever.
- matthewearly, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0Yes Yes... Pretty pretty colours... but more importantly... What do they taste like!! ;)
- crayonsman, on 04/09/2009, -0/+0The Crayons are fluorescent. They were renamed. i.e. Ultra Orange became Outrageous Orange.
- nikimedia, on 03/10/2009, -0/+0I work for a photos on canvas retailer http://www.chiccanvas.com and this information was extremely helpful. You always need CMYK color codes especially for matching the customers ideal border color, etc. Thanks so much
- crayonsman, on 04/09/2009, -0/+0[color]+[other color] names are still in use today. A few were retired & replaced in 1990 for allegedly being too drab.
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