Even if it’s been a few years since some of us have used Crayola Crayons, chances are you remember most of the colors that came in the box… Red, scarlet, green-yellow, yellow-green, orange, blue, carnation pink, and for some reason white. An art teacher named Peter Donahue has taken to TikTok to make the case that the classic 24-pack of crayons needs some colors replaced- and the comments section says he makes a good argument.
Among the arguments he makes in his video is what’s called “color theory”- that while the red and scarlet crayons might look different, they color the same on paper- going on to show that orange and yellow-orange had the same effect.
His suggestion? remove the yellow-orange, scarlet, violet-red, violet, cerulean, green-yellow, red-orange, and blue-violet crayons in the classic 24-pack box and replace them with strawberry, bittersweet, royal purple, plum, granny smith, banana mania, jungle green and robin’s egg blue… All colors that Crayola already offers in larger boxes.
You can read more about this in Parade Magazine, and watch the original TikTok below.
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