January 19, 2010 12:56 pm
Weather Sealed (our favorite street steepness scientist) allows us to continue this week’s retinal assault with a timeline of Crayola’s colors.
(Bonus points if you can match the colors used in the 1970 BART expansion plan map.)
Interesting how some colors were discontinued — green-blue, blue-grey. Those seem fundamental — Crayola insults color history! (Kidding.)
WS’s friend Velo seems to have discovered a color power law:
Ever industrious, Velo also calculated the average growth rate: 2.56% annually. For maximum understandability, he reformulated it as “Crayola’s Law,” which states:
The number of colors doubles every 28 years!
If the Law holds true, Crayola’s gonna need a bigger box, because by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons!
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