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Will your favorite color get the boot? Crayola retiring crayon shade Friday

 
A 24-count box of Crayola crayons are shown, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in New York. On National Crayon Day, Friday, March 31, Crayola is scheduled to announce the retirement of a color from the pack during an event in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A 24-count box of Crayola crayons are shown, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in New York. On National Crayon Day, Friday, March 31, Crayola is scheduled to announce the retirement of a color from the pack during an event in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Published March 29, 2017

In two days one of the iconic colors in Crayola's 24-pack of crayons will be no more.

The crayon company says it will retire one of the shades and put it into their "hall of fame" Friday, "National Crayon Day."

Crayola is going all out on social media for the shade's send-off. There's a live countdown until it will make the announcement, which will be streamed live. (Because this is 2017, is there anything people won't watch on Facebook live?)

There's even an Instagram campaign "#ShareYourFave" that has avid colorers posting photos of which shade they can't imagine life without.

So which one will get the boot?

Seems like essentials yellow, blue, brown, orange, green, violet, black, gray and white are probably safe. But red orange, yellow green, blue violet, violet red, dandelion, cerulean, apricot, scarlet, green yellow and indigo? Not so basic — and probably not so safe.

On Crayola's Facebook page some are commenting that the coming retirement is "a publicity stunt." (Though it's not unlike other color retirement and promotions the company has done decades before.)

One mom wrote, "My son is crushed you retire colors. Please don't let it be Red or Dandelion or you will have a very upset 6-year-old."

In 1990, the company retired: green blue, orange red, orange yellow, violet blue, maize, lemon yellow, blue gray and raw umber.

Something BIG is happening at Crayola. On March 31st we'll retire one of ourcolors…and it might just be your favorite. #WhosLeaving pic.twitter.com/7MiwKGTRkk

In 2003, Crayola had a "Save the Shade" contest, where voters held onto "burnt sienna" but said goodbye to blizzard blue, magic mint, teal blue and mulberry.

The company, which started making crayons in 1903, says it makes 120 colors, not including speciality colors.

You can check out an entire listing of Crayola's colors on its website.

The live stream announcement will be at 8:45 a.m. Friday.