Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Matching Crayola to Pantone

I'm still deciding on a nice box to present my crayons in and trying to come up with a crayon brand name to brand it with with. While that's happening I want to know which Crayola colours (roughly) match some popular Pantone trademarked colours. I've got my hands on a 24 pack but I've a feeling I might need one of the larger packs for more shades...

So armed with a packet of standard 24 C
rayola crayons, a full list of their colours and the trademarked Pantone colours I've come across I'm ready to start matching them up. Here's hoping they match up fine!

Crayola - Pantone - Brand
  • 'White' - N/A- Apple 
  • 'Gray' - Cool Gray 9 C/ Cool Gray 7 C - Audi/ U.S Air Force
  • 'Black'- Process Black- Guinness
  • 'Violet (Purple)- 
  • 'Blue Violet'- 2658 C- Cadbury
  • 'Indigo'
  • 'Blue'- 286 C- Bluetooth
  • 'Cerulean'- 300 C - NHS
  • 'Blue Green'
  • 'Green'- 3425 C- Starbucks
  • 'Yellow Green'- 375 C-  Kawasaki
  • 'Green Yellow'
  • 'Yellow'116 U - Caterpillar
  • 'Dandelion'- 116 C- National Geographic
  • 'Yellow Orange'
  • 'Orange'- 151 C- Orange Personal Communication LTD
  • 'Red Orange'
  • 'Scarlet'- 
  • 'Red'- 485 C- Coca-Cola/ London Transport/ McDonald's
  • 'Violet Red'
  • 'Red Violet'
  • 'Carnation Pink'- 219 C - Barbie 
  • 'Apricot'
  • 'Brown'- 0607298 (Invalid PMS) - UPS
I'm leaving it at this for the time being, it's taking alot of time to find colours.  I need to finish up a brand and packaging for these then I'll come back and finish matching colours.
I'm feeling already that I'll not be able to match all 24 of the colours so my packet of crayons will probably have less than the Crayola packet.

Update~ I've managed to put together 14 out of the 24 Crayola colours, it's taking up far too much of my time and I need I to move on. I'm pretty happy with the list that I have, I've got at least one of every basic shade ( White, Grey, Black, Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink, Brown) so I'm not too worried about not matching the other shades.
There are a few trademarked colours that I would have loved to have matched but sadly I don't have the correct Crayola crayon for it. Some of these are; T-Mobile Magenta, Tiffany Blue, 3M Canary Yellow, Red Bull Silver & UCLA Gold
The brands I have connected to 'White' & 'Black' haven't to my knowledge trademarked those colours but they are synonymous with those colours so it's only a matter of time (Apple more so)
The UPS Brown PMS code is always quoted to be '0607298' but this isn't a recognised Pantone colour code, very strange.

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