User talk:Ed Welter

Welcome!

 * Saw some great comments by you over at the Talk:Crayon page and wanted to say welcome. PaleAqua (talk) 20:23, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It's been a few days since you left your comments, just wondering if you were planning to make any changes to the Crayon article based on the good information you provided? Be bold. If you have any questions about how to do it feel free to ask. Otherwise, I'll try to trace down or check out the sources you mentioned when I get some time and see what I can do. I'm a bit of a slow editor though, so may be a bit. PaleAqua (talk) 06:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Hello! I saw your profile as a crayon collector in the 22 August Oregonian (pp. O1+O4f); you have a very impressive collection. Do you have any interest in meeting other Wikipedians? We have a monthly meeting the Wednesday of every month here in Portland -- contact me for further details. -- llywrch (talk) 16:27, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, the meet-ups still being held -- although I'm not as active in them as I used to be. You can find details at http://portlandwiki.org/WikiWednesday. Folks there are always eager to meet other Wikipedians. Tell them the guy on Wikipedia with the unpronounceable username sent you. ;-) llywrch (talk) 05:29, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Blow up List of Crayola Crayon colors?
I think you should nominate the article for deletion, owing to the massive factual inaccuracies and contradicting information. It's probably best to blow it up and start over  Purpleback pack  89  ≈≈≈≈  23:51, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Crayola 72 Crayon Case
Hi Ed, if ever you come across a 1980s-vintage Crayola 72 Crayon Case box (cat. no. 7740), you should scan it and include the list of colors it represents. The list shows how to arrange the 72 colors in order to make a chromatic rainbow. WikiPro1981X (talk) 20:01, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

History of Crayola Crayons: one or two questions
Thanks for the support with your recent comment, Mr. Welter! I found your site very helpful with respect to identifying the various colours available at different points in time, as well as the only reliable source for hues not part of the current assortment or the pre-1990 assortment (I have lots of Crayola crayons from about 1980 to 1988 to compare with). I only varied from your conclusions once or twice, and then only when there was some internal or logical inconsistency, or the swatches were indistinguishable in hue.

I found that when I made my own swatches on white legal paper, then scanned them into jpg's to measure colour values, there were often distinct differences in how the colours looked on the screen and on the physical paper. Plus, Crayola's own swatches assumed a solid and uniform colour much more intense than one could normally achieve with crayons; for these tables I have assumed that they represented the "ideal" or "theoretical" hues of the crayons. Because of this difference, I have my doubts as to how accurately I was able to measure the hue, saturation, and value (or red, green, and blue components) of each of your swatches.

I eyeballed my swatches to compare with the hues as I added them to the table, which I think produced much better results than the scanned images. But with your swatches I had to use a digital colour meter on the most intensely coloured parts of each swatch, and I'm not happy with the results on some of the older blues (particularly Cobalt Blue and Celestial Blue), which were nearly grey in the swatches. I had to estimate what they appeared to represent by increasing saturation. But based on my experience with scanned swatches, I'm not sure how accurate the hues are. You have the actual swatches; could you have a look and see how well I replicated those colours?

I also note that you did not post colour swatches for "Permanent Geranium Lake" or "Maximum Red," so these are the most likely of all to be poorly depicted. Given the scarcity of many of the oldest Crayola crayons, and the difficulty I would have obtaining them in order to make and check swatches for accuracy, I would greatly appreciate your input with some of these rarities. P Aculeius (talk) 20:30, 19 May 2016 (UTC)