Tamborine Green? Razzle Dazzle Rose ... Sweet Brown A lot of what Crayola does is take classic colors, give them fun names and remarket them in different combinations. Even Burnt Sienna has ...

Lately, I've got colors on the brain. In part I of this post I talked about the common roads that different cultures travel down as they name the colors ... blue from green. The researchers ...

The smell of my childhood is a combination of cut grass, pancakes and … crayons. Like many kids, I loved opening a fresh pack, and yes, I may have munched on a yummy-sounding Wild Strawberry ...

Created in 1903, the 8-count Crayola crayon box included the basics: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black. Eight colors could not begin to paint the complexity of America.

For the curious, the original Crayola crayon colors were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown and black. None of those have ever been retired and—given their ubiquity—likely never will.