Crayola Colored Pencils

For over 100 years, Crayola products have provided opportunities for children to color their world with creativity and self expression. The art of childhood is celebrated through innovative projects and smarter than Crayola crayons, markers, paints and can bring to every home, school or community environment. The Company has offices located Crayola sale in the United States, Canada, Australia and Mexico employing more than 1,100 worldwide.

Since its founding by Binney and Smith in 1885, produces approximately three billion Crayola crayons a year, averaging about twelve million per day. It's almost enough to pencil around the entire planet six times. Crayola crayons are varied in several ways. Not only are there 120 colors Crayola official, with 23 shades of red, 20 kinds of vegetables, 19 shades of blue, purple 16 types, 15 different oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 black, and shade of gold and silver, they each have a unique name as well. Most color names are from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Bureau of Standards book which is entitled "Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names." Several of Crayola colors were named after the paintings of traditional artists' way.

After comparing the results of more than 25,000 votes taken at the Crayola Color Census 2000, the majority of Americans favored the blue color of all colors in the Crayola box. In fact, the top ten included six different shades of blue, including midnight blue, turquoise, blue, periwinkle, blue blizzard, and denim. Other colors of the top ten included Caribbean green, cherry, violet and heat.

Interestingly, a study by Yale University showed that the smell of Crayola Crayons is number eighteen of the twenty most recognizable scents to American adults. It goes along with coffee, lemon, chocolate and cinnamon. Crayola does not just pencils, but they also offer products such as crayons, modeling clay, coloring books, and "tools of artists as a Crayola easel . Interestingly, Crayola has 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, Portfolio Series and Liquitex.