Laurentien is a Canadian brand of art supplies owned by Sanford

Sanford (writing products)

Sanford L.P., is a Newell Rubbermaid company based in Oak Brook, Illinois, USA. Sanford is the largest writing products manufacturer in the world. It is primarily known for manufacturing Sharpie, Paper Mate, and Prismacolor products.-History:...

 Canada. The line of supplies includes coloured pencils, marker

Marker pen

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Crayon

A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk, or other materials used for writing, coloring, drawing, and other methods of illustration. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel; when made of pigment with a dry binder, it is simply a pastel; both are popular media for color...

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Coloured pencils

Laurentien brand coloured pencils are also known as "pencil crayons" in Canada. They have historically been available in packages of differing sizes. Each coloured pencil is painted in a colour matching the lead, and labelled in white (Cotton White has yellow lettering) with both the name of the colour and a number assigned to each colour. Colours in the 60 pack are:

• 1: Deep Yellow
• 2: Orange
• 3: Poppy Red
• 4: Cerise
• 5: Purple
• 6: Navy Blue
• 7: Peacock Blue
• 8: Emerald Green
• 9: Deep Green
• 10: Brown
• 11: Chestnut
• 12: Black
• 13: Ultramarine
• 14: Soft Peach
• 15: Green
• 16: French Green
• 17: Smoke Grey
• 18: Blush Pink
• 19: Cherry Red
• 20: Arizona Topaz
• 21: Roan Red
• 22: Sky Magenta
• 23: Cotton White
• 24: Lemon Yellow
• 25: True Blue
• 26: Brown Sienna
• 27: True Green
• 28: Scarlet
• 29: Lavender
• 30: Light Orange
• 31: Crimson
• 32: Cardinal Red
• 33: Tangerine
• 34: Cream
• 35: Canary Yellow
• 36: Raspberry
• 37: Grape Violet
• 38: Aqua
• 39: Ocean Blue
• 40: Blue
• 41: Blueberry
• 42: Celery
• 43: Peacock Green
• 44: Coffee
• 45: Cinnamon
• 46: Tuscan Red
• 47: Pastel Green
• 48: Dark Brown
• 49: Sienna
• 50: Light Yellow
• 51: Cloud Grey
• 52: Mandarin
• 53: Blue Grey
• 54: Dark Grey
• 55: Champagne
• 56: Azure
• 57: Pine Green
• 58: Turquoise
• 59: True Pink
• 60: Khaki

Additional metallic colours were also available and appeared in a separate Laurentien Metallic Pencil Crayon Set. The colours in the metallic set are:

• 62: Metallic Gold
• 66: Metallic Green
• 67: Metallic Blue
• 69: Metallic Purple
• 72: Metallic Silver

External links

• Laurentien Official Site
  • History of Laurentien