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In 1992, Crayola released a set of eight Multicultural Crayons which "come in an assortment of skin hues that give a child a realistic palette for coloring their world." [ 15 ] The eight colors used came from their standard list of colors (none of these colors are exclusive to this set), and the set was, for the most part, well received, though ...
In 1939, Crayola, by combining its existing crayon colors with the Munsell colors, introduced its largest color assortment product to date; a "No. 52 Drawing Crayon 52 Color Assortment", which was retired by the 1944 price list. In 1949, Crayola introduced the "Crayola No. 48" containing 48 color crayons in a non-hangable floor box.
Cornflower is a Crayola color with hexadecimal code #93CCEA. [9] It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons. The color is also called light ...
March 1905 ad from Crayola. Their most recognizable brand was the Crayola "Gold Medal" line in yellow boxes, which referred to one the company earned with their An-du-Septic dustless chalk during the March 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. They used the award to design a new line of crayons featuring the medal on the front of their box. [20]
While Crayola had retired colors before, [2] Dandelion was the first color to be removed from the box set in the 114 years since Crayola's establishment. [3] [4] Crayola wanted space to add a blue crayon made with the newly discovered YinMn pigment to their 24 pack, [2] [5] which was announced at and had an event in Times Square livestreamed on Facebook, on March 31, 2017.
The name Crayola was suggested by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin Binney, combining craie, French for "chalk," a reference to the pastels that preceded and lent their name to the first drawing crayons, with the suffix -ola, meaning "oleaginous," a reference to the wax from which the crayons were made. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Book containing line art, to which the user is intended to add color For other uses, see Coloring Book (disambiguation). Filled-in child's coloring book, Garfield Goose (1953) A coloring book is a type of book containing line art to which people are intended to add color using crayons ...
For his birthday, Tommy gets a box of 64 Crayola crayons, but his new first-grade teacher rejects them, and makes him draw the same thing as everybody else in his class, with a few school crayons and on a single sheet of paper. He makes a bargain with the school Art Teacher: one page for the drawing that the rest of his class is making, with ...