4 ms·

Crayola colors 1903 to 2010

39 points by krtl 17y ago

jwecker 17y ago
I wonder what they have against real dark brown and real light blue? Ah, I see a second shade of blue they discontinued. Probably needed the names for some other shades...
blahedo 17y ago
Cute, but I'd love it an order of magnitude more if it labelled them. (I wonder why some of the colours were terminated....)
- mrduncan 17y ago
  Not quite what you were looking for, but there is an amazing amount of info on Wikipedia. List of colors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors Crayola timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Crayola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Crayola
Jach 17y ago
I was talking with someone the other day about web design and caught myself saying something about "the flesh color". Thanks, Crayola. (http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2008/08/flesh-4.jpg http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2008/08/flesh-4.jpg)
- philwelch 17y ago
  Heh, I grew up in the days after they renamed it "peach" but somehow independently figured out that was the closest they had to caucasian skin color so I used it. Or if I didn't have that crayon I'd just draw black people.
- subwindow 17y ago
  I remember in art class in 4th grade, a friend of mine drew a person with a black crayon (he was from Nigeria). I was completely baffled and asked him why he didn't use flesh color. I guess it's kind of nice how ignorant I was of racism. On the other hand- come on, dude!
JacobAldridge 17y ago
Here's some more information on the origin of the picture - http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/crayons_and_choice_a_headache.html http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/crayons_and_cho...
patrickgzill 17y ago
I remember a moronic high school English teacher that didn't know what "umber" was and marking me down on a paper ... "burnt umber" of course being a Crayola color...
rrhyne 17y ago
Inflation. ;)
vais 17y ago
I find the topic of color dictionaries fascinating. I compiled some information while working on an app here: http://colordictionary.info http://colordictionary.info and made my color dictionary data available for download as a Ruby hash here: http://colordictionary.heroku.com/data.rb http://colordictionary.heroku.com/data.rb
mhb 17y ago
http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/ http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/

39 points by krtl 17y ago

I wonder what they have against real dark brown and real light blue? Ah, I see a second shade of blue they discontinued. Probably needed the names for some other shades...

blahedo 17y ago

Cute, but I'd love it an order of magnitude more if it labelled them. (I wonder why some of the colours were terminated....)

mrduncan 17y ago
Not quite what you were looking for, but there is an amazing amount of info on Wikipedia. List of colors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors Crayola timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Crayola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Crayola

Jach 17y ago

I was talking with someone the other day about web design and caught myself saying something about "the flesh color". Thanks, Crayola. (http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2008/08/flesh-4.jpg http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2008/08/flesh-4.jpg)

philwelch 17y ago
Heh, I grew up in the days after they renamed it "peach" but somehow independently figured out that was the closest they had to caucasian skin color so I used it. Or if I didn't have that crayon I'd just draw black people.
subwindow 17y ago
I remember in art class in 4th grade, a friend of mine drew a person with a black crayon (he was from Nigeria). I was completely baffled and asked him why he didn't use flesh color. I guess it's kind of nice how ignorant I was of racism. On the other hand- come on, dude!

JacobAldridge 17y ago

Here's some more information on the origin of the picture - http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/crayons_and_choice_a_headache.html http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/crayons_and_cho...

patrickgzill 17y ago

I remember a moronic high school English teacher that didn't know what "umber" was and marking me down on a paper ... "burnt umber" of course being a Crayola color...

rrhyne 17y ago

Inflation. ;)

vais 17y ago

I find the topic of color dictionaries fascinating. I compiled some information while working on an app here: http://colordictionary.info http://colordictionary.info and made my color dictionary data available for download as a Ruby hash here: http://colordictionary.heroku.com/data.rb http://colordictionary.heroku.com/data.rb

mhb 17y ago

http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/ http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/