Colors have been renamed through the years, beginning with the 1958 renaming of "Prussian blue" to "midnight blue." The color known as "flesh" was renamed "peach" in 1962, partially in response to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. "Indian red" was renamed "chestnut" in 1999 due to concern that some children thought the crayon color represented the skin color of Native Americans.[1] According to the company, however, the name originally referred to a reddish-brown pigment from India that is used in artists' oil paint. - Jennifer Taylor from Bookmarklet

Funny new colors: Outer Space, Shadow, and Manatee?! But I'm glad that the blue-green vs green-blue and violet-blue vs blue-violet distinction is gone. That always confused me so much as a kid. - Jennifer Taylor

Is that why you didn't grow up to be an artist? - j1m

I think I avoided the problem by only drawing horses, which were mostly Burnt-Sienna-colored. But I guess it is kinda limiting to one's artistic career to only draw horses. :-) - Jennifer Taylor

It might be more difficult to grow up with today's colors, what with their ridiculously-specific names. Like what if you wanted to color your shadow Manatee? Would you feel really constrained, like the crayons are telling you that you're coloring wrong all the time? - Jennifer Taylor