True Colors?
Lest your seven-year-old’s artistic endeavors be thwarted by a paralyzing inability to color people with the crayons she already has, Crayola has thoughtfully packaged eight colors—black, sepia, peach, apricot, white, tan, mahogany, and burnt sienna—in a “Multicultural Crayons” set.
How, precisely, different shades of brown and tan are “multicultural” isn’t explained on the Crayola website; nor is their apparent assumption that, somewhere in the world, there exist people with black or white skin.
But hey—at least they’re “easy to grip.”
posted by Aaron Bragg
May 28, 2010