Everyone likes crayons.
I'm here to provide you with an unnecessary guide to the colors included in the Crayola 64 pack.
Violet red: It's like red, but a little bit more pink.
Brick red: A slightly darker red, but no quite maroon. Maybe the color you would expect to find on, let's say, a brick.
Red: A classic.
Wild strawberry: A lot like violet red, but in my opinion a bit more red. Not as red as a strawberry, despite the name. More like the kind of red you would expect to see dried on a paper plate that used to have strawberries on it.
Scarlet: Starting to move towards orange, but mostly still red. Very vibrant.
Red orange: Orange, but a little bit more red. Scarlet, but a bit more orange.
Bittersweet: Pretty much the same as red orange, but maybe a tinge more brown? No. I think it's the same. But what kid doesn't need a color to evoke both pleasure and pain?
Orange: Just your classic orange. Like the color of an orange. An orange orange, not a green one. Or a yellow one.
Yellow orange: Barely more yellow than regular orange.
Macaroni and cheese: A fan favorite. It's a more pastel orange. More like the color of orange sherbet than macaroni and cheese.
Melon: Reminds me of a grapefruit, but lighter. Sort of a light orange/pink.
Gold: A color that is theoretically gold, but isn't actually shiny so it sort of just looks like an ugly yellow/orange/brown. It's clearly trying to be gold, but it's not fooling anyone.
Goldenrod: A little bit duller yellow, but not so dull that it's ugly. Honestly I'm impressed that Crayola was able to make so many yellow crayons that aren't ugly.
Dandelion: A deeper yellow, the tiniest bit more orange than regular yellow.
Yellow: Regular yellow.
Green yellow: Yellow that is so barely green that it just looks like regular yellow. Not to be confused with the completely separate color, yellow green.
Spring green: A green so light and so yellow that you can barely see it. I often question the existence of this crayon, and only use it when I begin to feel guilty about using all the other crayons more often. I worry that it doesn't feel loved.
Sea green: Not actually the color of the sea. Often referred to as sea foam green. Possibly the color of sea foam, but to be honest I don't know what color sea foam is.
Yellow green: Your classic bright green, or lime green. Not so bright that it's neon.
Olive green: Actually the color of a green olive. I think it's kind of gross looking, but that could just be because I hate olives.
Forest green: A darker green that you would maybe use to color in a forest.
Asparagus: A slightly darker olive green. Like the color of asparagus. Crayola was pretty spot-on with a lot of the green names.
Granny smith apple: In between sea green and regular green. Should "smith" be capitalized? Like is Granny Smith a real person who grew apples?
Green: Green.
Robin's egg blue: Actually the color of a robin's egg. A bright color I would expect to see worn by old people.
Blue green: Blue, but greener. Technically the name implies that it's green, but bluer, but it's definitely more blue than green.
Pacific blue: Blue green, but slightly less green. Like the pacific ocean, presumably.
Turquoise blue: Blue green, but lighter.
Sky blue: Light blue. I've always felt that sky blue isn't really a fair name because the sky can be all different colors. And not even just different shades of blue. I mean we've all seen a sunset.
Cadet blue: Actually gray. A blue gray, but still gray. Don't trust the name.
Periwinkle: Light blue with more purple. Also, a fun word.
Cornflower blue: Very soothing, less bold blue. The color of my retainer, except my retainer glows in the dark. This crayon does not.
Cerulean: A brilliant blue. One of my favorite shades.
Blue: Also brilliant blue, but slightly less bright.
Indigo: The color that comes in between blue and purple. Highly under-appreciated and often ignored in today's society.
Blue violet: Falls in between indigo and violet. Makes me wonder why it's not called indigo violet instead.
Purple mountains' majesty: Light purple. Fun fact: There are three different spellings of this color on different generations of Crayola crayons: "Purple mountain majesty", "purple mountain's majesty", and "purple mountains' majesty". This is fascinating, since the actual lyric it references from "America the Beautiful" is "purple mountain majesties".
Wisteria: Also light purple, but less blue than purple mountains' majesty.
Violet (purple): Thanks, Crayola, for clarifying what you meant by "violet".
Plum: A deep purple.
Orchid: A purplish pink pastel. I find the experience of the color of the wrapper next to the actual color the crayon to be very unpleasant.
Mauvelous: One of my favorite Crayola crayon names. It's a pun. Get it? Because it's mauve. And it's also marvelous. Oh Crayola, you tickle me.
Lavender: A lie. It's a pink crayon, but I was always under the impression that lavender should be purple. Light purple. Like purple mountains' majesty or wisteria.
Salmon: A little bit too pink to actually be the color of raw salmon, but a solid effort nonetheless.
Carnation pink: Because apparently "pink" wasn't a good enough name.
Tickle me pink: A slightly darker version of carnation pink. So still pretty much regular pink.
Magenta: A slightly darker version of tickle me pink. Fun fact: It's the only crayon in the box that doesn't have the name translated into Spanish and French. I assume this is because it's the same name in all three languages.
Red violet: Violet, but more red.
Mahogany: Brown.
Burnt orange: Like orange, but burnt. So, brown.
Chestnut: Brown.
Raw sienna: Brown.
Burnt sienna: Brown.
Tan: Brown.
Sepia: Brown.
Brown: Brown. There are many shades of brown, useful for drawing many shades of people.
Tumbleweed: Light brown. Another fun word.
Apricot: Very light brown.
Peach: The same as apricot. It was unnecessary to put them both in the box.
White: The most useless crayon in the box, unless of course you have watercolors and you do the cool thing where you paint with watercolors over crayon and you can see the white crayon underneath it.
Silver: Silver, but not shiny. So, gray.
Timberwolf: Light gray.
Gray: It's that color you get when you mix black and white together. Of areas, and matter.
Black: The darkest color. I feel pretty strongly that there should be an extra black crayon included in every box of crayons, because it always seems to get used up very quickly. It's a useful color.
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