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Crayola colors 1903 to 2010

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

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

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)

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.

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!

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...

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

Cute, but I'd love it an order of magnitude more if it labelled them.

(I wonder why some of the colours were terminated....)

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

Crayola timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Crayola

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...

Inflation. ;)

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