Is there a white crayon in the original 8-pack of Crayola crayons?

Answer 1

No, the original 8 colors were basically Black, Blue, Brown, Green, Orange, Red, Violet and Yellow. Almost everyone thinks that the original yellow box with the Gold Medal on it was the original 8-color box but that didn't come out until 1905 and Crayola debuted in Aug 2003. They had a green box of 8 back then that contained: Black, Blue, Brown, English Vermilion, Green, Orange, Violet, Yellow. Now English Vermillion is a red color and was commonly used as a Red back during that time so technically those have always been the standard 8 colors. The 8-color box goes back even before Crayola was created. Franklin Mfg Co. were the first to use this size box and set the standard for those colors. White, however, was an original color featured in the Crayola assortment in 1903. They used it in a 12 color box for artists and sketching and it could be found in their 18, 24 and 28 color sets. Over the 100+ years of Crayola, White is one of the most consistent colors whereas other colors like Red, Blue and Green changed fairly significantly over the years.