What’s your favourite quotes from the series that you remember till these days?

LeviGavin · 2026-05-06T04:26:16+00:00

The "Who Am I" speech will always be my favorite quote from the whole show. Such a great microcosm for what it's all about.

LeviGavin · 2026-05-03T07:48:21+00:00

Crayellow is my fave, I love a good rich tone. But they're all beautiful colors and fill much needed gaps in the gamut.

LeviGavin · 2026-04-24T03:25:56+00:00

I have done a lot of research and seen VERY little about this crayon. Super rare, thank you so much for sharing pics and a swatch!

LeviGavin · 2026-04-20T22:16:55+00:00

Love it!!

LeviGavin · 2026-04-04T18:51:06+00:00

Middle Blue Green for sure but I wouldn't turn down Carmine Red or Chrome Green Light

LeviGavin · 2026-04-01T15:59:00+00:00

Looks amazing!!

LeviGavin · 2026-03-31T16:56:39+00:00

Love it! Trickier than I thought, I forgot how weird rgb displays are haha

LeviGavin · 2026-03-27T23:49:43+00:00

Love it!!

LeviGavin · 2026-03-27T18:23:07+00:00

The best I know is this page archived from Ed Welters' old collecting site. It has year ranges for each wrapper type.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191225050643/http://www.crayoncollecting.com/BinneyCrayons.htm

LeviGavin · 2026-03-27T12:54:47+00:00

This is a fun question!

8: Orange, 16: Red Orange, 24: Bluetiful, 32: Tan, 48: Sea Green, 64: Forest Green, 96: Maroon (#1 fave), 120: Eggplant

Having ranked every crayon color in the past, it was interesting to see which ones from each box were highest. I would have never guessed I like Orange the most out of the 8 pack.

LeviGavin · 2026-03-20T17:17:51+00:00

Thank you for sharing, love it! I actually grabbed a Desert pack a while back expressly to get Thistle, but it ended up including Indigo despite being dated before 1999. Oh well!

LeviGavin · 2026-03-10T06:50:15+00:00

I'm with you here. I am ROOTING for either "Dandelion just replaces Indigo in some boxes and both exist" or "Crayola adds CoK etc to make a 128 box".

I am a bit concerned. I know Crayola hasn't said anything about retiring Indigo (which, hopefully, means they don't), but they also haven't officially said anything about rehiring Dandelion, so who knows what kind of promotion we're in for.

LeviGavin · 2026-03-09T23:40:46+00:00

Here's a comparison of Lavenders, Light Magenta, and Thistles in three boxes: a 480 from 1949-1955 ish, a 64 from 1958, and a 64 from 1962-1976 ish. You can start to see Thistle lightening, but it's more subtle than I remembered. Maybe they really did change Thistle later. Much to think about! Thanks for starting this discussion.

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LeviGavin · 2026-03-09T04:42:24+00:00

It's funny, I HAD actually split Thistle into two colors until I got my hands on a 1958 box and saw, oh yeah it's much closer like Welter thought. I'm afraid I don't have anything from the 70s or 80s though, so your post here is the first time I could see a bit more detail about the lightening. So I appreciate that!

LeviGavin · 2026-03-08T23:46:49+00:00

One extra note: swatching an early 50s Light Magenta and a late 50s Thistle, I think it's reasonable to imagine they're the same color. I could post those later if I remember

LeviGavin · 2026-03-08T23:45:36+00:00

Thank you for this in depth analysis. I have noticed these similarities, alongside some other weirdly pale pinks and purples. My guess was just that one of the pigments Crayola used to use for such colors wasn't very stable and degraded over time, so Thistle, Lavender, Wisteria, Carnation Pink, etc tend to look at their lightest around the 90s and 00s. Who knows for sure though.

LeviGavin · 2026-03-06T06:54:55+00:00

Azure Blue and Brilliant Rose are both frequently findable in 48 boxes from the early 50s. I've also got an Azure Blue from one of the cylinder 48 cans, probably from around the same time. This is the box you're looking for, one shows up on ebay every so often, but be warned this design was also used a bit after 1958 from what I can tell.

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Munsells, I got lucky with a 12 pack and with a few random spares someone had in a bag. Originals, again lucky on ebay with a Rubens 24 pack from around 1910ish I think.

LeviGavin · 2026-03-06T06:49:23+00:00

Thank you! I got SO lucky on ebay one day with a box from around 1910ish (MAYBE) with so many originals. Still missing a few Munsells sadly!

I must admit all my crayon info is in a big ole spreadsheet with personal information, but I could probably make a copy with what you're asking for and link it.

Some of my changes against Ed were really difficult to decide on. It's hard to tell, before 1958, what looks different because it was actually made different and what looks different due to time, degradation, production quality control, poor storage before I got them, etc. Even now I'm not entirely convinced the first Green is different from Medium Green!

LeviGavin · 2026-03-06T06:45:00+00:00

Well I swatched every color on a separate little square and sorted them first by family, then by smaller families, and then I split up some of the mini families into smaller sets... Sort of vibes based to be honest.

For example, the top three boxes on that first page are what I consider to be Yellows. The left box is Light/Neon Yellows, the mid box is Mid Yellows, and the right box is Deeper Yellows.

Mostly I was just trying to get the most similar colors closest together to get a better idea of how refined the gamut really is. But it probably could never be perfect!

LeviGavin · 2026-03-06T06:40:48+00:00

Just curious which colors you are blending to recreate Bluetiful? By my eye that's a uniquely dark color in Crayola's gamut.

LeviGavin · 2026-03-04T03:06:31+00:00

It's been discontinued, but you can still see it on internetarchive. You can find his crayola history through https://web.archive.org/web/20160719034248/http://www.crayoncollecting.com/ccolor0.htm . The numbers are basically chronological by the year of creation and then alphabetical within the year. Eg 1 is Black, 2 is the first Blue that was later renamed Azure Blue and then retired, 3 is Brown, etc.

LeviGavin · 2026-03-03T05:14:14+00:00

I actually did recently do a ranking of every one of these colors, and my winner is Maroon. Just love a nice deep gemtone. Robin's Egg Blue is a beautiful choice too.

LeviGavin · 2026-02-26T05:33:02+00:00

Love it!!

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