| For over 100 years, Crayola products have given | | | | to traditional artists’ paints as well. |
| children the chance to color their world with | | | | After comparing results from over 25,000 votes |
| creativity and self expression. The art of childhood | | | | taken during the Crayola Color Census in 2000, |
| is celebrated through innovative, crafty projects | | | | the majority of Americans favored the color blue |
| that Crayola crayons, markers, and paints can | | | | out of every color in the Crayola box. In fact, the |
| bring to any household, school, or community | | | | top ten included six different shades of blue |
| environment. The Crayola Company has sale | | | | including midnight blue, aquamarine, cerulean, |
| offices located in the US, Canada, Australia, and in | | | | periwinkle, blizzard blue, and denim. Other colors |
| Mexico employing over 1,100 worldwide. | | | | from the top ten included caribbean green, cerise, |
| Since founded by Binney and Smith in 1885, | | | | and purple heat. |
| Crayola produces roughly three billion crayons a | | | | Interestingly enough, a study done by Yale |
| year, averaging out at about twelve million a day. | | | | University showed that the smell of Crayola |
| That is practically enough crayons to circle the | | | | Crayons is number eighteen out of the twenty |
| entire globe six times. Crayola crayons are varied | | | | most recognizable smells for American adults. |
| in several ways. Not only are there 120 official | | | | That goes along with coffee, lemon, chocolate, |
| Crayola colors, with 23 shades of red, 20 kinds of | | | | and cinnamon. Crayola not only produces crayons |
| greens, 19 shades of blue, 16 types of purples, 15 | | | | but they also offer products such as colored |
| different oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, | | | | pencils, modeling clays, coloring books, and |
| 2 blacks, and a shade of gold and silver, they | | | | artists’ tools such as a crayola easel. |
| each have a very unique name as well. Most of | | | | Surprisingly enough, Crayola also produced |
| the color names are taken from the U.S. | | | | Christmas lights for the 1996-1997 season using |
| Commerce Department’s National Bureau of | | | | the popular colors pink, orange, and blue. Crayola |
| Standards book that is titled “Color: Universal | | | | currently has affiliate relationships with other |
| Language and Dictionary of Names.” Several | | | | brands such as Silly Putty, the Portfolio Series, |
| of the Crayola colors have been named according | | | | and Liquitex. |