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According to the website linked below, it was Indian Red, which was later renamed Chestnut in 1998. It was Indian red.
Binney and Smith invented the Crayola crayon. Alice Binney, wife of Edwin and a schoolteacher herself, came up with the name "Crayola".
Crayola came out with the color sky blue in 1958. It is one of the most popular Crayola colors and included in most packs they sell. One can buy them from Amazon.
Red.
Most people believe there were eight colors but in reality, Binney & Smith (the name of the company that produced the Crayola product at that time) had an entire catalog of crayon boxes with every size from 6 colors to 30 colors. The largest size of named colors was a 28-color box called the Crayola No 51 and the colors were numbered on their wrappers and then the numbers had color names on the box. They did produce a 30-color box but the crayons didn't have wrappers on them and so the colors couldn't be tracked back to what color names they actually were. It was common to not put wrappers on crayons sold to artists.
Crayola crayons have been around for over one hundred years and first came to market in the year 1903. They were superior because of their bright colors, their cost and their coverage on paper.
It's really not possible to get a definitive answer on this because the history behind the earliest crayons isn't documented very well. The most likely answer is black because industry marking crayons were around before school or artistic crayons.
There can be different ones in different packs. The most familiar assortment is: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Black, Brown, Violet (purple). The original "No. 8" crayon box didn't come from Crayola, it actually came from Franklin Mfg. Co (which later changed their name to Franklin Crayon Co.) in Rochester, NY in 1901. They were the first real crayon company producing crayons in the USA. Crayola began their crayon production in Aug 1903 and one of their earlier boxes was also 8 colors but wasn't called the "No 8 until 1905 when they changed to the "Gold Medal" design box that branded their product for the next 50 years. Though their original color names weren't exactly the ones used today (English Vermillion was the red color crayon used originally) they have been consistent with these primary colors for over a 100 years.
Golden rod is a yellow with a touch of orange and is only slightly less red than yellow-orange. Yellow is the dominant color. If you have red add a smidge of red to yellow to make a slight yellow-orange or add just add orange to yellow for an easier mix. CMYK 0, 25,100,0. RGB 244,194,33.
Crayola brand crayons were the first kids crayons ever made, invented by cousins, Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. The brand's first box of eight Crayola crayons made its debut in 1903. The crayons were sold for a nickel and the colors were black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green.
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