Since 1903, when Binney & Smith introduced the first Crayola crayons, people have been fascinated with the history of our color names. Read on for a list of our 120 core crayon colors and the years when they were first introduced, along with discontinued colors and names that have changed over the years.
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Take a look at the Crayola Crayon Chronology, a summarized history of our 120 core colors. Learn how to pronounce the color names from the Crayola 64 Box in English, French, and Spanish with our multilingual Crayon Name Chart.
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List of Crayola crayon colors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crayola crayons have come in a number of different colors over the years. When Binney & Smith first produced Crayola crayons in 1903, there were just eight colors. By 1949 there were 48 colors. In ...
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Crayola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crayola is a brand of artistry supplies manufactured by Crayola LLC —founded in 1885 as Binney & Smith —best known for its almost ubiquitous crayons. Originally an industrial pigment supply compa...
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Most Crayola crayon color names are taken from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Bureau of Standards book called "Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names." Many crayon names are also borrowed from traditional artists' paints.
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Advised by our human factors folks that "standard" named colors exist, but only for well-controlled color coordinate systems (like CIE, but not for RGB), I sat down one evening with the handiest standard of subjective color names, a box of 72 Crayola crayons.
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Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names by Kenneth L. Kelly and Deanne B. Judd. National Bureau of Standards, Spec. Publ. 440, Dec. 1976, 189 pages. ... UNIX X11 rgb.txt file with RGB values and color names often found in directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 ... Color Concepts and Names, [Byrne97B, Section II]
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