Dandelion? Please. It can go.
Scarlet is an orange-ish red. Crimson is slightly to the purple.
I’m voting to do away with Carnation pink because it represents white male cultural hegemony.
Actually, why not white? Does anybody ever actually use that crayon?
My Crayola boxes , in the 1950s, had both burnt umber and burnt sienna. They cannot be mixed up in anyone’s memory. Dark brown. Pretty reddish brown. And half of the colors they want to get rid of never appeared in a Crayola box that I ever saw. Let em go. Just bring me back Flesh color. Creamy, pinky flesh. Just like the color of, wait… sorry.
According to this on the Crayola Crayon collector’s site, burnt umber was discontinued in 1949, and not available from 1944-1948. So, I’m right that it was retired “somewhere in the 40s,” although later than I thought (I thought it was in the early 40s.) And you may well have had it in the 50s, because you probably had some old crayons or they didn’t all sell out in 1949. So perhaps Czarcasm is remembering burnt umber, after all, but I thought he was a bit younger than that.
Peach is flesh, with a different name. Cite. It was renamed for what I think are obvious reasons.
Yes. And this is the most popular time of the year for it because if you use a white crayon to draw patterns on a white egg and then dye it, the eggs look like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=easter+eggs+white+crayon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJz9vb2PrSAhXrjVQKHfKQBhoQ_AUIBigB&biw=853&bih=557#spf=1
My guess in indigo is gonna go.
Go, go, indigo!
– The Devil Wears Prada
Yes, and watercolors, too. Still, I find it mostly a pointless crayon when used as an actual crayon, not just as a colorless source of wax to be used as a dye resist. Just sell those separately, I say. (Although my vote is with indigo.)
Hello, your name is indigo Crayola. Prepare to die.
Wait – are they adding a new color, or are they cutting it back to a 23-count box? But keeping the price the same, I bet. Just like all the other items in the grocery store that stayed in the same size packages, but now have less product inside them.
Screw burnt umber and sienna. My favorite color as a kid was raw umber, and I’m still bitter. I remember that the crayon appeared black, but drew a shade of brown, and that was fascinating. I was a weird kid.
The entire concept is a bit trollish. Like, “next week on Star Trek: Kirk, Spock, Bones, and Ensign Steve will go to an uncharted planet… AND ONE WILL DIE! Tune in to see who.” They’re not retiring blue or red unless they’re trying to make a political statement.
We didn’t have Crayola where I grew up. Our crayons were made by a company called Regent, or something like that. Though Crayola did reach us eventually, early 80s maybe.
There’s too many oranges on that list.
Red
Scarlet
Red Orange
Orange - Apricot (pale orange)
Yellow Orange
Yellow - Dandelion (pale yellow)
Yellow Green
Green
Going the other directions, we have
Green
Blue Green
Blue - Cerulean (pale blue)
Indigo
Blue violet
Violet
Violet Red
Red Violet
Red - Carnation (pale red)
Black, White, and Grey are different brightnesses of all the main light waves. Brown is a composite of Red, Blue & Yellow, but it’s awkward trying to mix crayons, so the Brown stays.
Scarlet and Orange red are the two closest colors. Indigo & Violet are similar, but Indigo is a distinct range on the colors of the light spectrum identified by Isaac Newton. Indigo is also part of Roy G. Biv’s name. I think Indifo stays.
Here are the *real * twenty first century colours:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg11/Elbowish/IMG_1834.jpeg
Midnight Blue used to be in the 64 packs and probably still is. That was a crayon I usually managed to wear down to a nub. I say get rid of one of the violets and replace it with that.
One the other hand, indigo was kind of forced into the spectrum to line up with the seven notes of the musical scale (and other mystical reasons, from what I remember), and, also, there’s theories that what Newton called “blue,” is what we’d call “cyan,” and what he called “indigo” is what we’d call “blue.” It makes a lot more sense this way to me, to be honest, as there’s not really an intermediate color between blue and violet I see as distinct as the intermediate color between green and blue.
So down with indigo!
My reaction upon reading the OP: “Dandelion”?? WTF is dandelion? There is no such color. I remember my childhood well enough to recognize a non-canonical color when I hear it.
Can we get rid of blue-violet and replace it with a second black crayon? 90% of the time I pull that one out of a box, I’m looking for black anyways.