Caran d'Ache (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃ daʃ]) is a Swiss manufacturing company of art materials and writing instruments.

The company was established as "Fabrique Genevoise de Crayons Ecridor" in Geneva in 1915.

[2] When Arnold Schweitzer took over the company in 1924, he renamed it after Caran d'Ache, the pseudonym of the Russian-French satiric political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré – who in turn took his pseudonym from карандаш (karandash), the Russian word for 'pencil', itself of Turkic origin.

[4] In 1974, the company moved its production center to Thonex, a municipality of the Canton of Geneva.

[5] Some of Caran d'Ache products developed over the years include:[2][6]