Why does crayola retired colors

In , the company retired eight colors: maize, lemon yellow, blue gray, raw umber, green blue, orange red, orange yellow and violet blue. These colors were replaced by vivid tangerine, jungle green, cerulean, fuchsia, dandelion, teal blue, royal purple and wild strawberry.

In , as part of Crayola's centennial celebration, the company retired blizzard blue, magic mint, mulberry and teal blue. Introduced in with 15 additional colors finally giving children 64 shades to work with! Over the years, teachers began to worry that children would see the crayon as a reference to American Indians' skin color.

In , the Crayola company changed the name to Chestnut—but that too came with a disclaimer. The crayon manufacturer warned children that these chestnuts should never be roasted over an open fire, as they soften and begin to melt at just degrees Fahrenheit. A brown color that was originally made from peat or soil in the past, Van Dyke Brown gave old-world artists an earthy brown color to work with. It is said to be named after the s era artist Anthony Van Dyke. The color can be made and used in both oils and watercolors for painting and Crayola had the color in crayon form until it was retired in Television artist Bob Ross loved the color in his set of oil paints and used it for earth tones in his paintings on his television show The Joy Of Painting.

Crayola had both a light and a dark version of this red at one point in the crayon box. In renaissance times it was a popular color in paintings and it is said that one of the pigments in the painting version of the color was from Turkey.

During the English civil war from until the color was used for the uniforms of the New Model Army and this practice was carried on after the war by the British army as a whole. The count box currently features red, yellow, blue, brown, orange, green, violet, black, carnation pink, yellow orange, blue green, red violet, red orange, yellow green, blue violet, white, violet red, dandelion, cerulean, apricot, scarlet, green yellow, indigo and gray. One will be on the chopping block.

Once the color is retired, production of that crayon will stop, a Crayola Experience spokesperson said. It'll only be available while supply lasts. The company hasn't yet announced how the empty spot in the count box will be filled.

To send off the newly retired color, the Crayola Experience in Easton has special deals, attractions and giveaways in the works. They'll be announced soon. An unveiling of the banished crayon will take place Friday morning at Times Square in New York City, featuring a larger-than-life crayon box, a costumed-character of the departed color and a secret musical guest.