2025 Crayola Limited Edition Retired Colors; Crayons, Colored Pencils and Markers

This year in 2025 Crayola decided to bring back 8 retired colors. They built a Limited Eiditon campaign on these colors. They held special events in NYC which I attended and all the crayons had personalities and stories of thing they have been doing since they retired. Crayola has been making a lot of merch to go along with the limited edition release including; caboodles, Amtrack Train wrappings, Jones sodas and probably more to come. The colors included; mulberry, orange red, danelion, lemon yellow, magic mint, blizzard blue, violet blue, and raw umber. There is a lot of history with these crayons we will cover in this blog post.

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First off this is a Crayola first. This is the first time that Crayola has intentionally matched the crayon, colored pencil and marker colors. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. Faber Castell is well known for having all their color lines match, but Crayola lines have never matched their color lines. I would love it if they redid their color system to have all the markers and colored pencils match like they do here.

Here are the crayon, colored pencils and marker boxes for the Crayola 8 retired colors. There are 8 colors for each and even a matching tin. What is the history of these crayons?

Here is the history of the crayons:

Mulberry was a new color in the 64 box in 1958 expanded from the 48 count box. It was retired in 2003 for the new 64 box promotion.
Orange red was a new color in the 64 box in 1958 expanded from the 48 count box. It was retired in 1990 for a 64 box promotion.
Danelion was introduced in the 64 box in 1990 where 8 colors were added and 8 colors retired. The 8 colors retired were: blue gray, green blue, lemon yellow, maize, orange red, orange-yellow, raw umber, and violet blue. The 8 colors added were cerulean, dandelion, fuchsia, jungle green, royal purple, teal blue, vivid tangerine, and wild strawberry. It was retired in 2017 in a big campaign and replaced with bluetiful much to the chagrin of many people.
Lemon yellow has the most complex history. It was an original 1903 color, changed to light yellow until 1958 where it was renamed to lemon yellow. It was retired in 1990. There was another lemon yellow from 1903-1910, but that got retired and it was also called lemon yellow.
Magic mint was introduced in 1990 part of the 8 colors of fluorescents, and included in the 16 count fluorescent box. It was included in the 1991 96 count box. It was retired in 2003 along with blizzard blue, burnt sienna, teal blue and mulberry because of a contest to retire a color in 2002.
Blizzard blue was a fluorescent introduced in 1972 called ultra blue fluorescent and renamed in 1990 to blizzard blue. It was included in the 16 count fluorescent box and also the 72 count crayons and 96 crayons. It was retired in 2003.
Violet blue was new in the 1958 64 crayon box and retired in 1990 for a 64 box promotion.
Raw umber was an original color from 1903 in the No 51 box that had 28 assorted colors in it. It was retired in 1990 for a 64 box promotion.

Collecting Information

So far I have the Limited Edtion Retired Colors Colored Pencils, Markers, 8 crayons, 32 crayons, 96 page Coloring Book with Stickers and Tin. There are a box of 64 crayons, 96 coloring page book without stickers to find and some character crayons. Crayola also released crayon sharpeners in each of the colors and shoulder pets.

Boxes: Crayola Limited Edition Collection Colored Pencils, Markers, 8 crayons, 32 crayons, Tin

Year: 2025

What's inside the box:

8 crayons, colored pencils and markers: mulberry, orange red, danelion, lemon yellow, magic mint, blizzard blue, violet blue, and raw umber
32 crayons: black, gray, timberwolf, chestnut, apricot, raw umber, violet (purple), violet blue, bluetiful, blue, indigo, cerulean, sky blue, blizzard blue, cadet blue, green, magic mint, green yellow, yellow, lemon yellow, dandelion, brown, tan, peach, orange, melon, scarlet, orange red, red, mulberry, violet red

Purchase Information: gift from Crayola

Where to Buy: Walmart

Style Numbers: 68-2128 (Colored Pencils), 58-7746 (Markers), 52-3019 (8 crayons), 52-3014 (32 crayons)

Code Numbers: 68-2128-0-200 (Colored Pencils), 58-4446-200 (Markers), 52-3019-0-200 (8 crayons), 52-3014-0-200 (32 crayons)

UPC: 071662212681 (Colored Pencils), 071662077464 (Markers), 071662530198 (8 crayons), 071662230142 (32 crayons)

Here is the front and back of the Limited Edition Collection colored pencils box.

Here is the front and back of the Limited Edition Collection markers box and the markers in the box. The used an old wrapper design for the decoration of the marker.

Here is the front and back of the Limited Edition Collection crayon box and the crayons in the box. Crayola used an old wrapper design in cream for crayons.