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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.
The Crayola 12 pack of Ultra Cool and Super Hot colored pencils is released. 2013: Crayola introduces the marker maker; 2014: Crayola introduces Ultra-Clean Washable crayons and markers, featuring ColorMax: "Our brightest, truest colors yet!" Also, The Crayola 152-count Easy-choose container is released; 2017:
Student- and scholastic-grade colored pencils lack the high quality pigments and lightfastness of artist-grade products, and their color range is smaller, often limited to 24 or 36 colors. However, using lower-grade colored pencils does have some advantages. Some companies offer erasable colored pencils for beginning artists to experiment with. [8]
Color Name Hexadecimal in their website depiction [b] R G B Years in production [2] Notes 16-Box 24-Box 48-Box 64-Box 96-Box 120-Box Red #ED0A3F 237
These were never added to the No. 64 box, but were available separately or in a special box of 72 crayons, typically packaged with activity books or crayon stands. Fabric crayons were introduced in 1980, as the Crayola brand continued to expand beyond regular drawing crayons. Colored pencils and markers followed. [7]
Also that month Crayola began offering its own line of adult coloring books. [28] Publishers also began packaging some of their colouring books with pencils and CDs to support the enjoyment of this activity. [29] Sales in the US continued to grow in early 2016, but began to fall by the end of the year, with fewer newcomers trying this pastime. [30]
Unlike wax-based colored pencils, the erasable variants can be easily erased. Their main use is in sketching, where the objective is to create an outline using the same color that other media (such as wax pencils, or watercolor paints) would fill [45] or when the objective is to scan the color sketch. [46]
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.