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Colour Challenges

-Turkey

Purple Majesty in Istanbul

Hex colour reference:  #9d81ba A colourful note:  the Purple Mountain’s Majesty crayon was named by  89 year old Mildred Samson from Minneapolis, as part of Crayola’s 1993 naming competition.  It was run as […]

-Turkey

Purple Heart

  Hex colour Reference:  #7442c8 A colourful note:  the purple heart crayon was another shade that played a part in 1997 in the True Blue Heroes contest in the US and the […]

-London

Plum Carousal

I admire this little beauty every time I walk past St Pancras Station – joy, with a touch of jealousy! Hex colour ref:  #8e4585 A colourful note:  in 1958, Crayola […]

Colour Challenges

Pink Sherbert

In the UK, sherbert is a sweet, fizzy powder consisting of sugar, flavouring, acid (such as citric acid) and base (such as sodium bicarbonate).  A traditional sweet, and one of […]

-Turkey

Sweet Istanbul

Hex colour reference:  #158078 A colourful note:  this dark green, with a hint of blue, is known in current Crayola boxes as pine green.  In fact, this shade of green featured in the original […]
Sweet Istanbul

-Kent

Piggy Pink for a Viking of the Day

  Hex colour reference: #fdd7e4 A colourful note: piggy pink is a Crayola name, introduced in 1998 as pig pink, but later softened to “piggy pink”.  And it seems a very close match […]

-Manchester

Ultimate Power

Hex colour reference:  #c5d0e6 A colourful note:  this pale blue-lilac shade, known as periwinkle, is named after the flowers of the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb. The first recorded use of […]

-Sweden

Peachy Nightscape in Stockholm

Hex colourful reference:  #ffcfab A colourful note:  peach is a delicate colour, named after the pale internal flesh of a peach fruit.  The first recorded use of this name as a […]

-Kent

Pacific Blue

  Hex colour reference: #1ca9c9 A colourful note: this greenish-blue shade appeared in Crayola fashion in 1992, known simply as #16.  This naming by number was a way of promoting that […]