Multicultural Crayons

Show me a white person who is as white as that crayon. Racist man... so racist.

(Just messing with ya. :P)

albinos

i love these crans

I have a classroom set from a different company and it has 20 colors. The names are fantastic - 'cinnamon', 'sable', 'peach', 'toast', 'almond'. My preschool kids match their skin color and then we decide if they are yummy or not.

I love it. there needs to be a color between peach and white for white folks though. unless you're coloring in Norway, then use that white one to your heart's content. hah!

omg i haven't seen those since art class in elementary school... 15 years ago... they're nothing new, but they're amazing nonetheless

@ Snarlz - Edgar Winter!

Crayola has always had "multicultural crayons". They just were not named that. I think it all started with the "Flesh" one. Which was changed to Peach because of the civil rights movement. Then there was "Indian red". A color which referred to the color of pigment from India, and not to Native Americans.

Snarlz, your comment is insensitive to albinos and goth people, you should be ashamed! lol

I've come to the conclusion that my skin is not really white. It's blotchy pink.

I'm not sure how crayons blend (sad childhood, I know), but perhaps the white could be used to modify the shades of all the other colours to make it closer to whatever skin colour you're trying to approximate. Same applies to the black.

I think it is a great idea. The colors were already available in the 72 color box, but when you are a kid it is a little too many choices - having just the 8 for skintone is just enough choices for a pre-schooler.

While crayons do blend somewhat, it is not seamless when you little kid learning to color you might try experimenting, but you haven't really grasped the concept of what two colors to try to together to come up with what you want - it is all trial and error.

What? No drunken green in the box?

They've had these for a long time, except they used to call these crayons the "people pack."

The white color is named "More cracka than Boo Radley"

you could surely blend the white and peach to make a more natural pale with reds for the warmth of cheeks and nose and a darker brown to accentuate the shadows of the eye sockets et al,

I used to have these crayons in my ESL classroom.

Covers everything from Seal to Seals teeth

the white must be for mimes, i just didn't now them to be their own culture...

What about grays and greens for aliens?

To be politically correct, there should be no white crayon in the box.

Well, you could use the white when drawing Geishas...

The white Crayon was supposed to be in the Twilight Series box.

@animageofgrace:

EPIC WIN!

Where is kung fu yellow?

avatar blue ?

Very, very few Black people are black, just like White to white. Both the colors should have been omitted in my opinion.