My first expe­ri­ence in exper­i­ment­ing with color most likely was with my 64 Crayola Crayon pack with a built-in crayon sharper in the back. I loved arrang­ing and rear­rang­ing the col­ored crayons into new color com­bi­na­tions more than I enjoyed col­or­ing and draw­ing with them. One year, for my birth­day, I got a spe­cial edi­tion Crayola Crayon tin that had every color a 5 year old could imag­ine. The crayons that were usu­ally run down to a stub in my pack were Midnight Blue, Olive Green, Dandelion and Brick Red. I was seri­ously dis­ap­pointed to see that the Crayola Online Store no longer car­ries my favorite pack, but they do have the Crayon Tower which places a dis­tant sec­ond in my heart.

Recently I ran across this post on COLOURLovers. This is a great resource for all those Crayon lovers out there. There is a list of the Hex and RGB val­ues for all of Crayola’s 120 cur­rent col­ors to spice up your web­sites! If only Pantone had such cre­ative names like Atomic Tangerine and Wild Blue Yonder, I would be set.