Just when you thought Crayola had every color in the universe covered, the company is about to debut a whole new hue. And it’s something most have never seen before. The “new to the world” blue was ...

YInMn Blue, the brilliant pigment discovered in 2009 at an Oregon State University lab, is finally making its way to artists’ studios. The pigment—which is the first new blue discovered in 200 ...

YInMn Blue, the first new blue pigment identified in 200 years, was always an astounding discovery—it just took the general public some time to catch on. Now, eight years after the pigment was first ...

You're probably already done with your back-to-school shopping (if you had any), but you may want to make another trip down the art supply aisle after reading about Crayola's latest news. The crayon ...

A color named by a Vermont student more than 30 years ago has been named one of the most-loved Crayola colors, according to the crayon maker. Crayola announced the winners of its first Global Color ...

When the founder of toy company Kid Made Modern Todd Oldham was a kid, he left a box of crayons in a hot car one summer. When he returned, all the colors had melted together, becoming one giant ...

EASTON, PA - JUNE 18: A packaging machine sorts crayons while moving them toward individual boxes at Binney and Smith, Inc., the manufacturer of Crayola crayons, June 18, 2003 in Easton, Pennsylvania.

In 1993, the eight-year-old son of a Middlebury teacher decided to name a crayon after an egg shell and won a contest that spanned the entire nation. Christopher Straub of Bristol, armed with quaint ...