Crayola Crayons Retiring Four Colors

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[chance33_98]

Crayola Crayons Retiring Four Colors

EASTON, Pa. -- Get ready to say hello and good-bye to Crayola crayon colors.

The company plans to add four new colors to its collection and retire four others at its 100th birthday celebration next month.

Crayon fans voted in an online campaign to spare one of five colors -- Burnt Sienna, Teal Blue, Blizzard Blue, Mulberry and Magic Mint -- that the company had selected to be eliminated. A spokeswoman says Crayola officials chose five colors that they considered redundant or unattractive on paper.

The winning color of the "Save the Shade" campaign will be announced at a party on Oct. 11. The company plans to unveil the new Crayola colors, and also the world's largest crayon.

Crayola retired eight colors in 1990.

[Political Junkie Too]

I don't get it...

Bilingual Brown is supposed to appeal to the Mexican field-worker, I suppose. I said that they should have named it Coffee with cream or some other name that didn't have the racial overtone.

-PJ

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I *think* Red Green makes duct tape...

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Café con Leché?

[Reagan79]

Oh the Humanity! Please don't do it Crayola! Let's start a save the Colors campaign.

[Thinkin' Gal]

A lot of other posters recall burnt sienna. I wonder why, hmmm? It was the one in the box with the wrapper [and name] still on the crayon! :-]

[vavavah]

Can you imagine the uproar over that move?....when was it deleted?...a PC action to say the least...

[LizardQueen]

LOL, great picture. I'm going to have to go dry off my keyboard now , the water I was drinking is all over it!

And I hope they keep burnt sienna too - I used to use it for tree trunks when I drew as a child. I wish they'd keep making the old sets with colors from 30 years ago, and if they want new colors just add them to a bigger box, or make new boxes alongside the old ones. But that's probably not cost efficient.

LQ

[LizardQueen]

Here's the color chronology, for anyone who feels the need to know ;)

http://www.crayola.com/colorcensus/history/chronology.cfm

I know I was bummed out about the colors they dropped in 1900. "Maize" was needed when drawing corn, and orange-yellow and lemon-yellow were 2 of my favorites.

But my all-time fave is still periwinkle.

I must've had a really old box of crayons as a kid. I remember "prussian blue" but I was born in 1964, and they dropped it in 1958, according to the chronology.

LQ

[GovernmentShrinker]

They just CAN'T kill Burnt Sienna!

[NCjim]

Burnt Sienna is the only one I recognize

I agree! I even registered and it does not ask for my vote. :-(

[radiohead]

Well, now that we are revealing our neuroses, I was never one w/messy looking crayons. I liked them all pointed, with the wrapper neatly spiraled down if necessary. Never lent them to boys because their crayons were all squatty and yucky.

If you're going to treat your things that way, you don't deserve to use mine. : )

[ssdb]

It's like the world is coming to an end. Doesn't anything last forever?

[jocon307]

"It would sit in the box and I would admire how fresh it always looked, when all the others were worn down and broken with no labels left."

LOL, yes, Burnt Sienna is the only one I recoginize, and a lovely sophisticated color it always was. I hope it wins the contest.

What you say reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon that I wish I could post in it's entirety, I have it on my wall at work. Calvin is contemplating his new box of crayons, admiring them in their new, pristene condition, and bewailing how they will soon be broken and used. He comments that life is "Unbearably tragic". As your post indicates an unused crayon is truly a symbol of hope & optimism.