@kims imagine if pantone and crayola teamed up!

@kims @catnip Pantone rubbing their thighs, panting: This could be an NFT or something

@biocolores

@kims 1972-1990 should have been the final set

@kims makes sense, their packages always seem to be powers of 2. Are they selling the 1024 pack yet? More importantly, does it have the built in sharpener?

@kims very cool!

@kims Looks like Lego colours...

@kims 😂 Ha this is great.

@kims wow!

@kims pretty

@kims 1. Another doubling due soon! 2. Will need to come in a wheeled case or at least shoulder straps. 😉

@kims serious blue compression

@kims IT'S ALL GONNA GET BROKEN UP IN THE SAME BOX ANYWAYS

@kims when I was little I only used black crayons. My parents would go to art stores and get packs of only black crayons. They had my eyes tested. I was just pure goth as a toddler

@kims
This is a metaphor for something - human demand for constant growth?
#StopGrowth in rich countries #Degrowth?

@kims today's data viz ftw!!

@kims "Benjamin Moore's Law"?

#NoNeedToCallSecurityImLeavingOfMyOwnAccord

@kims I remember when we got our first 48 count box. I’d wanted shiny kids’ colors like silver, gold and copper but for those you needed rich parents to get the 64 or 128 count.

‘1962: Partly in response to the civil rights movement, Crayola decides to change the name of the “flesh” crayon to “peach.” Renaming this crayon was a way of recognizing that skin comes in a variety of shades.’

@kims cc @sbarolo youre gonna need a bigger bracket.

@kims
Even Darwin would be perplexed!

@kims I remember when you knew your parents had money when they could afford to buy you the 64-crayon box, the one with the sharpener in the back. LOL. That was like Christmas and your birthday all rolled into one.

@kims @supergovernance This is amazing.

@kims Gonna start using the Crayola 1903 palette in all my creative projects now

@kims Well, at least that's slower than the rate of inflation, right??

@kims in a about 540 years there a more crayola colors then particles in the universe.

@kims 4k colour crayon box when?

@kims I love the Crayola Corollary chart!

I wonder if our ability to distingush colors is growing over time...

@kims We live in a very colourful age!

@kims This is awesome! Do you have a reference for it or it is your work? I'd love to use it in my classes as a neat example of visualization.

@kims the doubling cycle is 28 years according the creator of this chart: http://www.datapointed.net/2010/01/crayola-crayon-color-chart/

Crayola should start giving HEX and RGB numbers on the crayons to help kids learn Design and CSS secretly. Or at least this future proofs them when they have run out of names! #stem #css #crayola #design

@kims how is this a thing? And which will end first color doubling or Moore’s Law?

@kims Art imitates nature! Immediately reminded me of this classic image from chaos theory.

@kims And there STILL not enough colors 😄

@kims

So if we do our computation using differently colored Wang tiles we should be able to continue doubling our computational efficiency every 18 years indefinitely.

@kims my god

At this rate the universe will be entirely Crayola by...

(counts on fingers)

...t-tom-m-morrow.

@kims @SwiftOnSecurity

@kims
I remain convinced that in the 1980s I had a Crayola that was called "poo brown" 💩

@kims neat. Wonder what the lego colour timeline looks like

@kims this is excellent.

@kims

@kims
#interestingfacts
@baltmatrix

@kims yet Crayola still doesn't make a colour for your eyes!

https://youtu.be/EELEjeYzfjM
(Link to: Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes - Song by Kristin Andreassen on YouTube)

@kims if you invert this it shows global species decline projections. Viola

@kims

The future of the rainbow flag. 🏳️‍🌈

@kims Did you see the cool follow-up by @djnavarro ?

@kims I LOVE THIS!

@kims

Last year I wrote a page about light and color, and included information about Crayola crayon colors by year and box size. (See charts near the bottom.)

http://syncopate.us/articles/2022/j12

@kims The 90s were harsh. Multiple lineages went extinct.

@kims It is the perfect illustration of the consumer society

@kims well now I know which chart to use in future, thanks! :D

@kims So, it's Moore's Law but for USMC snack flavors, you say...

@kims
And yet, they still make hardly any good bright pinks. ::sulks::

@kims putting the cray in crayola

@kims they're all the same color in my tummy tho

@kims This makes me want to run out & buy a new box of Crayons 🖍️😆

@kims Honestly, having less colors and making them better to mix would be more ideal I think haha

@kims it's Moore’s Law, but for kids!

@kims I like the 1903 set!

@kims They have never improved on the taste of the original blue.

@kims Crayola colours are my inspiration to check which colours my lights understand.

@kims it is generational!

@kims For 32 years, it wasn't possible to draw something white with Cryaola on paper that wasn't.

@kims yummy

@kims

Crayola Corollary is a great band name

@kims oh shit my mental color chart is stuck in 1903.....

@kims #coolaf

@kims
Finally someone is shining a light on Big Crayon