How many sharpies are made a year

If you hover over the individual markers, the names of the markers pop up. Not the easiest way to determine the color of your Sharpie marker. As far as I can determine, there are currently a total of 68 Sharpie Pen Colors. They break down into Standard Colors and Limited Edition colors. The Limited Edition colors are, as their name would imply, only available for a limited time.

After that limited time, it looks as if some of the colors are incorporated into the standard colors. It is now regularly included in the larger packs of markers.

Personally, with the explosion of adult coloring books, I think Sharpie should bring back all of those limited edition colors that were retired. Here is a breakdown of the Standard and Limited Edition colors…. I will be adding additional information about Sharpie colors and illustrating more Sharpie pen colors as I come across them. Be sure to come back and check for updates! If you have more information on Sharpie colors, please add below in the comments.

You might also be interested in my review of various art supplies for adult coloring books , my review on Sharpie Neon Markers , or my review of Sharpie Metallic Markers.

Wow Cheryl…this is cool! Glad to have this to refer back to :. I also wish Sharpie would bring back some older limited editions. I have a few of the more recent ones.

So cute.. I actually just finished putting little labels on my Sharpies. I will probably add that picture to this post. It may seem a bit overboard, but there are some Sharpie markers that are just impossible to distinguish simply by looking at the lid — Valley Girl Violet and Purple for example.

Just impossible to distinguish. Would be very easy to pick one up by mistake and mess a picture up. I am slightly desperate for you to finish your project, haha. I agree! It IS confusing. There are two purple markers that, when I hold them side by side, I cannot tell the difference in the lid color. The only way to identify them is to actually color with them.

It is crazy. Of course, that problem is twofold; first I have to find them and second even if I do find them, they will not arrive labeled so if I make the mistake of ordering two markers in the shade of purple….

But, my search is on and, rest assured, I will add new information as soon as I have it. Thank you so much for your comment! By the way, Bic does label their makers and they have some lovely colors.

Thank you so much for this illustration! I like to have color charts for all of my markers and pens and without the names and which name goes to what color its almost impossible!

I wrote the names on the markers now so I have them! Thank you! I know! It drives me crazy to not know the colors! I put stickers on mine on the caps with the names written on the stickers. But then the stickers started coming off so I had to put transparent tape over the stickers. Maybe I will try writing directly on the markers like you did! The nice thing about the stickers is that I put the stickers on the caps so whenever a marker runs out of ink and I have to replace it with a new one, all I have to do is switch caps and throw the old marker away!

Be sure to stop back, new content being added all of the time! You are welcome! It makes me happy too Gemma! Soon you will have all the colors memorized. Happy coloring! Thank you so much for doing this. Just for you Vicki….. I am obsessed with colors and I have all colors for my other markers but not for sharpies.

Where can I get them? I made a color chart for the Sharpies Awaiz. Here is a link! Thank you, very informative! The Sharpie tip, however, needed to be made of something more rigid that wool felt, so Francis Gilbert located a company that molded a tip for the Sharpie made of a rugged plastic foam.

Charlie was not completely happy with the plastic foam tip, but he was eager to get his product on the market. There is an advantage to being first, and he wanted that advantage. So in the Sharpie was introduced with the same ink as the felt tip marker ink and with a plastic form tip while product improvement of the product continued.

I was graduating for the University of Iowa at that time. While the Sharpie was an immediate success, Charlie recognized that the product needed improvement if it were to hold its place in the market.

He hired a veteran Chemist named Keith Beal to develop a proprietary tip for the Sharpie that would be made bySanford. He felt that a custom made tip that would out perform anything the competition could buy was the way to capture and keep the market. Keith took the development job but he disagreed with Charlie about the necessity of a better tip for the Sharpie. All felt tip markers on the market used a similar solvent based ink. Chemically the solvents are what are known as aromatic solvents, or in commercial terms, oil based solvents.

The odor was objectionable. The dyes for oil based solvents were weak. With these solvents it was too difficult to adjust important properties like evaporation rates of the ink. He therefore convinced Charlie to let him hire an assistant.

And along with assisting him in his development of a new tip, Keith wanted to put his assistant to work developing superior inks as a secondary assignment. So in Keith Beal went to the Chicago employment clearing office maintained by the American Chemical Society looking for a bright, young chemist who was looking for work in the Chicago area. Keith was a native of New Sharon, Iowa.

This is a small farm town in the southeast part of the state. When he saw a resume from a young chemist named Bill Green who was from a farm town near to New Sharon he decided to interview the young man. So he sent me an invitation to interview for the position of formulation chemist. I came to Chicago with three interviews lined up. One canceled out before I made it to the interview. A second interview was with a petroleum company who gave me a job offer, but their terms were a cut in basic salary with the chance to make up the difference in overtime.

I considered myself a professional chemist and was, frankly, offended that they would treat my position in that way. So I went to my third interview a bit discouraged. The oil company would have been a job with a prestigious company. This was the job I was counting on.

But I was eager to relocate my young family to the Chicago area, so with nothing else going for me at the time, I took the interview. I soon received an offer from Sanford with a slight raise in pay, and since it was the only good offer I had, I accepted it. Shortly after accepting the Sanford offer I received an offer from General Electric.

They were developing a color television tube and needed an analytical chemist who was capable of developing new analytical procedures. In my interview with them I had impressed them as someone with the ability to work in uncharted territory.

The job was not only in Cleveland, but within walking distance of the apartment where we were already living. It was a great offer and a great opportunity. But my first objective was to relocate my young family where my children would grow up knowing their extended family.

To me, this was my highest priority, so I turned down General Electric and honored the commitment I had made toSanford. By all sound logic I had made a poor choice. And now that I am at the end of my career, I still have to wonder what I missed professionally by making that decision.

From my first day on the job at Sanford it was made clear to me that the President of the company, Charlie Lofgren, considered the Sharpie to be the future of the company.

My training began by Keith walking me over to the production line where Sharpies were being made. A team of about 4 assemblers sat at a table.

The first assembler manually inserted a plastic fiber bundle that was nothing more than an overgrown cigarette filter into the molded plastic housing. These parts are known as the barrel and the reservoir. The barrel was, and still is, grey in color. Another smaller plastic piece known as the ferrule was then manually placed on the barrel and this assembly was handed to the second assembler.

The ferrule was colored to match the color of the ink being used. This assembler set the assemblies into a fixture know as the spin welder. Upon activation of a switch a rotating head came down and spun the ferrule at high speed while holding the barrel stationary in a clamping device.