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Crayola Company, Fun Facts about America’s Favorite Crayon

For over 100 years, Crayola products have given children the chance to color their world with creativity and self expression. The art of childhood is celebrated through innovative, crafty projects that Crayola crayons, markers, and paints can bring to any household, school, or community environment. The Crayola Company has sale offices located in the US, Canada, Australia, and in Mexico employing over 1,100 worldwide.

Since founded by Binney and Smith in 1885, Crayola produces roughly three billion crayons a year, averaging out at about twelve million a day. That is practically enough crayons to circle the entire globe six times. Crayola crayons are varied in several ways. Not only are there 120 official Crayola colors, with 23 shades of red, 20 kinds of greens, 19 shades of blue, 16 types of purples, 15 different oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 blacks, and a shade of gold and silver, they each have a very unique name as well. Most of the color names are taken from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Bureau of Standards book that is titled “Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names.” Several of the Crayola colors have been named according to traditional artists’ paints as well.

After comparing results from over 25,000 votes taken during the Crayola Color Census in 2000, the majority of Americans favored the color blue out of every color in the Crayola box. In fact, the top ten included six different shades of blue including midnight blue, aquamarine, cerulean, periwinkle, blizzard blue, and denim. Other colors from the top ten included caribbean green, cerise, and purple heat.

Interestingly enough, a study done by Yale University showed that the smell of Crayola Crayons is number eighteen out of the twenty most recognizable smells for American adults. That goes along with coffee, lemon, chocolate, and cinnamon. Crayola not only produces crayons but they also offer products such as colored pencils, modeling clays, coloring books, and artists’ tools such as a crayola easel. Surprisingly enough, Crayola also produced Christmas lights for the 1996-1997 season using the popular colors pink, orange, and blue. Crayola currently has affiliate relationships with other brands such as Silly Putty, the Portfolio Series, and Liquitex.

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