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Colour Challenges

-Turkey

Vivid Beauty

  Hex colour reference:  #8f509d A colourful note:  vivid violet appeared as a new Crayola shade in 1997, a vary busy  crayon year.  The company introduced a fair number of new names and […]
Vivid Beauty

-London

Through the Gateway

Hex colour ref:  #deaa88 A colourful note:  this shade appeared anonymously in 1992 as part of the public naming competition, and was named tumbleweed by winner Julee Robinson, aged 33. Tumbleweed is […]

-London

Tropical London

This is not a geographic location to match the name of this Crayola tropical colour, but Green Park’s trees obviously have tropical ambitions. Or is just a dream? Hex colour reference:  #17806d […]
Tropical London

-Sweden

Foxy Coastline, Wolfy Sky

Stockholm at night,  February 2016 Hex colour reference:  #dbd7d2 A colourful note:  the timberwolf colour was named after a large type of wolf with grey brindled fur, found mainly in northern […]

-Kent

Tickle Me Pink

    Hex colour reference:  #fc89ac A colourful note:  Crayola’s tickle me pink shade was named by 12 year old Sam Marcus in the 1992 naming competition.  He had drawn […]
Tickle Me Pink

-Arizona

Colourful Grand Canyon

  Hex colour reference:  #faa76c A colourful note:  tan was one of Crayola’s new colours in 1958.  I went back many years to select the image above, because this shade had […]

-Barcelona

Warm Welcome in Raval

  Hex colour reference:  #5d5e53 A colourful note: sunset orange joined the Crayola collection in 1997 as a dark orange shade.  Sunset’s first recorded use as a colour name in English was […]