Hipster Crayolas
March 24, 2011
Been Done Black
Ironic Orange
Pabst Ribbon Blue
Jaded Green
Pink? Please.
Saffron, Before It Was Popular
Whatever Red
Organic Fair Trade Brown
“Purple” in Air Quotes
So Cadmium Yellow
White? Seriously?
Burnt Pfft
You Wouldn’t Know It, It’s Pretty Obscure Gold
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japecake 
At first I laughed, but then I thought, ‘Wait a second…am I a hipster?’
Those glasses … I don’t know. Do you ride a fixie?
I don’t really require these glasses. I just drew these onto the picture…although I did color them with Been Done Black.
BAhahahAHAHahhAHA
Also: Two new bonus colors
Hey,
I actually looked up Jape and Scamp a few years ago and love both words. Noticed the Pabst and Crayolas–sounds like a pleasant way to spend a rainy afternoon. Lot of discussion about whether Pabst has become the beer of choice for hipsters. Anecdotal evidence from New Orleans is that the answer is Yes. Popular beer in Flanagan’s Irish Pub, and was my beer of choice while standing outside Rouse’s supermarket on Royal Street listening to the street musicians. Loved the pix today. Cheers, Ceejay
PBR (as the tragically hip call it here in Brooklyn) is DEFINITELY the beer of choice for hipsters. Have you seen the hipster traps appearing around NYC? Check out this photo: http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/14/hipster-trap/
If you have to have an existential crisis along the lines of asking yourself whether you are a hipster, you probably are. But don’t worry, there are cures. Up here in Canada, the cold usually weeds out those tight jeans with no room for long johns and canvas shoes pretty quickly. Some of the bearded and plaid ones survive, though.
Clearly you haven’t been to the Mile End in Montreal lately.
Haha, I believe the great hipster debate there is “Cafe Social or Cafe Olympico”. No, you’re right, I haven’t been there in a while, at least not since The Arcade Fire got huge. So how about that colour? Arcade Fire Red.
This is a love in my book.
Aren’t colored pencils hipper than crayons anyway?
And why no silver o r gold or glittery colors? Those are totally hip, right?
Hip and Hipster are different. Crayons have an ironic “I don’t give a crap and I want to make sure everyone notices” quality to them. 🙂
My son (who’s 9, mind you) informed me that people who say “hip” are old….
D’oh.
Tell him you’re demoting him to the basic “8” box.
um…Chris… we don’t say “colored” anymore… ; P
i dont get it..hows that funny?
Next you need multi colored sharpies.
Multicolored?
People will think we actually care about colors.
Pabst Ribbon Blue?! Oh, nooo….!
Pabst Ribbon Blue? Blue Moon Blue for me…does that make me less hip?
Blue Moon for me too!
I feel like, at least here in brooklyn, PBR as the official hipster beer is so 2000. But wait, maybe that makes it “retro” and somehow hip again…
Either way, great post. I would add a drab gray and call it, “Meh.”
Do you get bonus points if you’re wearing an NBA-throwback jersey over your oxford while drawing with these?
These are awesome. Simply awesome.
As someone who writes about my crazy, post-betrayal, post-divorce life, I think “Jaded green” may just be my color. Though I think I’d need something like “bitter lemon” to balance it out!
Of course, since my ex is suing me to stop my blog (apparently not comfortable with my words, no matter the hue), I think “whatever red” may be more appropriate! The case is in a few weeks; I’ll have to see what happens then decide from there. 😉
GREAT list. Thank you for sharing.
“Seeing Red” might be appropriate in your case. 😉
Haha, brilliant! Thanks for this post…totally made my morning.
Haha! No shiny colours?
Organic fair-trade brown made me smile.
I think decaying rocks and edible coloring tools (yeah) are more hipster than traditional crayons.. I’ve been known to color my journal with chocolate brown, blood red (a skateboarding accident), and any other food (or–not food) item that would spill or squeeze something “pretty.”
Aun Aqui
Fun blog! Love “purple”!
yessss. Now I want PBR.
I bought my some some new crayolas the other day, they are spirals. Seen them? They are cool. But man, nothing is better then just a basic box of crayons..the smell, the colors…perfection. … The only reason they put white in the box is because there would be a social uproar i they didn’t. Maybe they should have named it Shaun Cassidy white or something to give it an edge… okay, I know its a stretch.
It is a totally unmistakable, memory-evoking smell, isn’t it? Nothing quite like a new box of Crayolas…or the crayon sharperner in the back! 😉
I agree. I remember my first Box.
I loved my sharpener too.
I like your post… I dont think i’ll ever forget “Jaded Green”….it’s like it on repea in my head ever since I read it.
That’s right! no other crayons smells like Crayola.
Thanks for the Friday smile!
How about Scruffy, Blonde Beard Tan? Or Better on Vinyl Black?
Now I’m going to be doing this all day.
Kids always throw tantrums when you give them crayons, felt tips are better. Real cool kids are felt tips. I think we could seggregate token high school groups using childrens stationary. Though, my favourite colour is red. Whatever!
this is funny but it isnt really hipster. Crayola has been naming their crayons odd things everytime they design a new box.
No GMOs Maize
Brilliant, by the way!
LIKE!!
Inventive.
Hip to be sqaure. Congrats on Freshly Pressed.
Don’t forget, “I’m so different, man” gray
Aw, man, no one gets us.
My hipster youngest son is continuing the hipster education of their one year old daughter Evy one day at a time. As soon as I forward this link, he and daughterinlaw will be replacing the color names on their box of 255 with up to date discriptors such as Your Not The Boss of ME Mauve. Great post. Excellent blog, and at the risk of being social media trite . . . . congrats on FP! Oh, BTW . . . how about Word Press Teal? (lookin’ at their “W” logo). Obama Bronze? Just thinking outloud here. My ONLY inspiration on this one was Bahama Bronze, honest! Fun stuff!!
Thanks. I thought I was the victim of some kind of spamming thing when I first looked at my traffic stats this morning.
this shit is rad.
this is so cool! nice post! i love crayola crayons!!!!!
Haha, I love it. I’m going to start calling colours that all the time now.
cool glasses, classic.
chartreuse, anyone?
silver and gold/glittery colors are totally hip dude. get it right! 😉
Those crayons are too cool for school.
Blessings,
Ava
xox
School is so ’08.
What? It’s not still ’08? Crap, I thought that nap seemed a little long.
Brilliant! Love this post! 🙂
how are the crayolas hipster? I mean it is funny with some of the names the company comes up with but every year there is one or two new names and colors.
hahahahahahahhaha…
That was pretty cool…but you didn’t miss a few…the box shows 64 colors LOL…just kidding..liked it!
*didn’t you*
wow
vary good !
hahaha This is hilarious. Well done.
Thanks for reading!
Lovin’ it Lavender!
Ha! Silly hipsters. Love it.
Ha! This reminds me of a post I wrote about Crayola’s Multicultural crayons at http://popnology.com/2010/12/29/multicultural-crayons/
you are the man!
I like your website
Thanks. Who knew kids’ art supplies were so popular?
Teal’s earlier stuff was SO much better….
Love it. Totally made me smile. 🙂
Pabst Ribbon Blue
aka trailer trash blue. Haha
“Purple” in Air Quotes
Ahaha!
Great read on a Friday morning. Congratulations on being FP!
Ha. This is one interesting post.
Such a curious image!
How about mellow yellow, green bean and heady ready?
Saffron, Before It Was Popular
Burnt Pfft
Haha!!! Love it! Nice post.
Wow, I’ll never look at crayons the same again…now I want to name them all! Good job and so much fun!
As someone going to art school in Portland… I just have to thank you for this. Ironically, of couse.
Organic Fair Trade Brown
Best one.
http://www.dontmakethatface.com
The Blue and Purple crayons have the best taste-flavor.
clevera!
so clever! I haven’t touched a box of crayons in too many years, glad the industry is still evolving.
I think I am going to paint my room “Burnt Pfft”
This is hilarious.
I was just informed yesterday that Pabst has now become the hipster beer of choice in other cities.
Also, I have heard someone describe their bicycle to their friend as “PBR Can Blue”.
Groovy names, especially the metallic one. 🙂
That’s really Clever 🙂
I loved this post! As an Artist, there have been times that my friends and I would sit and make up random crayon colors. Hilarious. Creative.
Thanks!
Congrats on being FP!
Awesome, haha
Have you seen this Hipster Snorlax?
I love this… it combines many awesome, awesome things.
Mostly crayons.
And beer.
My neice once gave me a box of 96.
Okay, so what about Goth crayons? Absinthe Green. Desolate Grey. Despondent Charcoal. Black as the Crypt. Vampyre Red.
Oh, and those are the only colors IN the Goth crayon set, BTW … 😀
hee hee this made me giggle. ❤ it.
This would be funny, except since I heard of Crayolas first I need to go find a new coloring tool now that everyone knows about them.
*sighs and hops on my fixie in my new denim brand you’ve never heard of*
The hipster metallic is by far my favorite.
Funny. I think I’m gonna’ like it here.
Drop by anytime. But BYOPBR.
So funny! That makes me a hipster too!
Cheers 🙂
Too funny. My hipster kid would call it
Epic fail flesh or
Trolling teal
I learn new words every day.
I like Saffron, before it was popular.
Funny post.
Thanks. I guess your hipster kid must have some skinny genes in him. 😉
Funny to see this post today, as I had just read this anonymous quote a few hours earlier: “We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”
Just remember, japey… I knew you before you were big.
It’s the movies that got small!
This conversation is older than most hipsters.
Funny. Sooo love the You wouldn’t know it, it’s pretty obscure gold. Because, well, it hit a little too close to home for homeslice sitting next to me on the couch.
Hehe, this crayons/crayolas always remind me of the saying: “He’s not the brightest crayon in the box.” … I have now come to refer to those people as ‘crayonists’, hoping that word will make it into the Oxford Dictionary in the next two years.
wow. i so want those crayons!! congrats on FP!!
Thank you. It’s been quite a day. Those people from The View just won’t leave me alone. 😉
I’m kinda burnt out on hipster jokes…but I would totally be into a juggalo crayon selection. ;D
As a former Detroiter, I’ll have to give this some real thought. How about: “F*ckin’ Magenta–How Does It Work?”
Yes! And every time you draw with “F*ckin’ Magenta–How Does It Work?,” the titular song plays. If only every crayon had a theme song…
Haha! This is great, actually made me laugh 🙂
Thanks. Now to sit back and wait for the lawsuit from Crayola.
Thanks for keepin’ it Crayola. There’s nothing worse than those crap crayons you get with the Kid’s Menu; too much wax, not enough cool.
Perfect post to end a long week.
Thanks. And you’re right–I remember those sad, sad crayons that came in a styrofoam cup at Big Boy.
Interesting. Do U do anything with Play Dough?
Congrats on getting Freshly Pressed.
Good old Crayolas have been around for a long time.
“purple” in airquotes. I love it! And I doubt there’ll be a lawsuit from Crayola…more like the next box of crayons you see will have some of your names!
Brilliant stuff. I want my old Crayola Caddy back. I had the whole set – over 100 colours (all ironic of course) on a caddy that turned. They were ALL the rage in 1987.
Bahha. Hysterical.
Clever!
I live within miles of the factory here in Easton. Shall I suggest some of these?
Wow. Do you get that great smell in the air when they’re going full tilt?
Very Colorful!
Thank hue.
My college-aged hipster brother read this and he didn’t get what was so funny. I burst out laughing.
I am so not a hipster, but still laughed out loud. And you’re right to keep it Crayola…there is NOTHING like a new pack…(and along with the beer….brillian)
Safron, Before it was Popular. I’m at the library so I’m not allowed to laugh. But trust me, I’ll be laughing abuot this tomorrow.
Organic Fair Trade Brown might be my favorite. Great Post!
too funny – I will forever rename my crayons…
Love it! Great pop art humour blog. And Crayola! What a great childhood image to see…even now, seeing all those colours and the different names grips me. I can almost smell the paper wrapping around each crayon!
Fiez
I second Philosofiez’s comment!
i prefer felt tip pens hands up who still likes colouring pictures as an adult its very relaxing hehehe
haha, too funny!
LOVE.
That was great! Very funny! : )
Hulk green, I did not do it OJ orange, honest Nixon true blue, and and win a game Miami Dolphin coral.
It really upsets me that PBR has become a hipster staple. This has been my beer for years. It’s what my father drinks, and his father before him, and now everytime I order one I get dirty looks. GIVE ME BACK MY BEER!
Love this! Haha
I would like to suggest “noncomplient to meds” gray and “drawn out of my funk by mood elevators” blue. I’m sorry… I don’t understand this whole hipster thing…does wearing all black all the time count or does that make me a Goth wanna be or is my wardrobe color challenged?
Brilliant. Made me laugh so much. I had just finished reading all of the hipster hitler web comics. Perfect tie in for me 🙂
Favourite bit was this:
By popular demand: A hipster metallic
You Wouldn’t Know It, It’s Pretty Obscure Gold
Classic.
Thanks. Those are definitely some funny guys over at HH.
Could you please write in burnt pfft so I can see what the color is?! Thanks for the laugh!
This crayon box isn’t really hipster unless the sharpener in the back is fixed. Pssh.
Funny stuff. Congrats on FP.
Thanks. Sharpeners are too mainstream; real hipsters use vintage Yugoslav-manufactured penknives to sharpen their crayons.
This is wonderful, I burst out laughing. Thank you for posting this 🙂
hahaha love it!
http://fluffyglutton.com
Hahaha, “Pink? Please” and “Purple” got me the best, but what a great list. As someone with many a hipster friend, I definitely appreciate these new color ideas.
Love this post! Very funny! Brings back memories. Though my artist wife has still used them. Forgot about all the names. My parents would not buy the big box.
This is pretty perfect.
Also alliterative. 😉 (And thanks!)
Great!!!
I like the “whatever red”… I think I should get it for my hipster editor. She seems to like the word “whatever” when she gets in the zone producing/editing our vids and it’s her way of ignoring me. 🙂
Haha… a box of crayons just summed up my old neighborhood in Portland, OR.
thanks for the laugh! ah the memories of a good old box or crayons nothing pleased me more (even still) than a big thick colouring book and a bix ole box or crayola!
any picture with crayola and pbs deserves a comment! great post; you’re very creative
Hahaha. I love this. ^_^
Burnt out sienna. PBR Blues after 3:00.
Love this post! 🙂
Not even a nod to Burnt Umber?
What a maroon!
I laughed because I’m surrounded by hipsters. And then I realized how much those crayons WERE cool before you blogged about them. Now EVERYONE uses them.
Awesome.. liked the obscure gold one (by popular demand??)
I’m definitely a bit like that – always liking to be the first to know about something, then thinking back on the day when it wasn’t popular. I don’t want to label myself a hipster, because I was like that way before I ever heard of the word “hipster.”
SOOO FUNNY AND CLEVER.
lol crayolas :p
Awesome post, except now since everyone has noticed, I’m so over it.
y does everybody give a crap about crayons? i mean isn’t that what we are talking about?
I couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately, the American wax lobby is unbelievably powerful.
I liked that
I had no idea that PBR is the beer of choice for hipsters. I find that so strange. Out where I’m from it’s the beer of choice for rednecks. Well, when you can’t get Shiner Bock. 😉
I swear it sounds like some of the makeup colors at our counter. Sometimes I’m too embarrassed to say them. Like “soft and slow”. How can I say that to an old lady?
I love “burnt pfft”. It sounds dark burnt orange.
Love your post!!
love the hipster crayola post, and laughed my head off..
but now that I have used up all my Been Done Black, I am forced to use my
Get The Lead Out #2 pencil, with my pink Rubber Meets the Road eraser…
(memory problems)
Even crayola are hip? It’s the end of the World.
I am glad that the Pabst Blue Ribbon blue was a accepted since the think that they are for children. Here’s an idea Let’s have over 21 crayons . We could have Blue Moon Blue , Mary Jane Green, special Brownie brown, tarry stool black, you get it ; }
I’m waiting for the day hipsters will start wear crayons as an accessory
This is so great! I love the names! haha
I’ve always wondered who they pay to think up the crayon colors.
You’re required to take a rigorous staying-inside-the-lines test.
xecellent crayons. pabst blue ribbon…This is so great! I love the name love “burnt pfft”. It sounds dark burnt orange.
Love your post!!
So cute…..
nice
Hii
Nice
Thanks
Someone should reward you for this magic! absolutely hilarious!
hahahahhahahahahahha…wicked!
Love it! Such wit 🙂
i can be a part time hipster and still laugh right?
Where is ‘shut the fuck up’ fuschia? Huh?
Age of Aquarious Blue?
Congrats on FP!
Now if only they can come out with a plaid crayon….
Congrats on getting Freshly Pressed! 🙂
What about The New Black?
Very funny……sooooo cool
Hahaha! Congrats on being freshly pressed! 🙂
What about “white space” ?
Thanks for the Friday smile!
How about Scruffy, Blonde Beard Tan? Or Better on Vinyl Black?
Now I’m going to be doing this all day.
very funny. congrats on fp!
Thanks! The responses have been very kind, and I appreciate it.
Can I go buy a box of those at Urban Outfitters?
Nevermind…Im already so over it.
Hip and Hipster are different. Crayons have an ironic “I don’t give a crap and I want to make sure everyone notices” quality to them.
That awkward moment when you look at the brown chair next to you and wonder: “Is THAT Organic Fair Trade Brown….?”
Constant furniture anxiety is just the price of being a hipster.