24 Retired Crayola Colors. Crayola announced they are removing the dandelion color from their basic box of 24 crayons due to a complaint from the white house that children were using it to create unflattering portraits of president. Copyright 1991 binney & smith inc.
Welcome to the retired crayola colors posts. Crayola has played into the public's thirst for colors and publicly called out a few colors where they have changed names for one reason or another. There are a few ways a color is retired at crayola.
Once the color is retired, the company said it will not produce any additional crayons in that shade.
24 Retired Crayola Colors. There are now 80 colors in the biggest box of crayola crayons. The actual color is retired or the the color name is changed. It wouldn't be until the closing of the bedford factory in 2004 that color names. Crayola is a famous color pencil and crayon producer.