According to The Associated Press, he made 1.4 billion crayons over his career. Moser in particular loved working with the eight original colors of red, blue, yellow, green, orange, violet ...

For the curious, the original Crayola crayon colors were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown and black. None of those have ever been retired and—given their ubiquity—likely never will.

"This might be an unfair question: Do you have a favorite color crayon?" we asked him. "I do," he replied. "It's probably going to be asparagus... it's that beet-green." ...