A chronology of Crayola’s chromatic growth from 8 colors in 1903 to 120 colors today (not including metallics and neon). Weather Sealed reports that the average annual growth rate of 2.56% means a doubling of available hues every 28 years. That’s 330 colors by 2050. So every generation’s “standard” box has twice the variety its parents had. Thirteen colors over the years have been officially retired and three colors underwent official name changes.
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Crayola's Law
A chronology of Crayola’s chromatic growth from 8 colors in 1903 to 120 colors today (not including metallics and neon). Weather Sealed reports that the average annual growth rate of 2.56% means a doubling of available hues every 28 years. That’s 330 colors by 2050. So every generation’s “standard” box has twice the variety its parents had. Thirteen colors over the years have been officially retired and three colors underwent official name changes.
Happy Ha, Cha ...
This pie chart of the popularity of various spellings of Hanukkah (the most popular) arrived uncredited in an email.
A little googling took me to a 2005 post from Unbecoming Levity. Turns out that this is no whimsical bit of holiday levity. The post includes a complete dissection of the "core word" and its "variants", resulting in a table of nine columns and 16 rows. I can appreciate the obsessiveness, but it's definitely TMI. Okay, I never knew that French speakers use Hanouka, and it seems that in the effort to not miss any possible spelling, an e-tailer of holiday merchandise keyworded any and all possible spellings including: Chanuko, Kanukkah, Khannuka, Khanuka, Khanukah, Khanukkah, Khannukah, and Xanuka.
Edward Livingston Youmans, Chemical Atlas, Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination, 1855
First candle is tonight. Chave a Chappy one!
