Color codes for new versions of anything?

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#1

Does anyone know if there are any color codes for different stages of anything?

I know for software, they have the Alpha, Beta, etc… codes for different releases, but in any field are there color codes for new versions of something?

What I am doing is making a list of all my mp3’s I have at the time of burning them, and since I have a lot of music, I want to color code them by how new they are. They are already arranged by Alphabetically order by Artist, but to narrow them down a little more, and for my reference, I would like to color coordinate them as well.

Example:

First round of burning: Color 1
Second round of burning: Color 2
etc. etc.

So, are there any color codes out there that can help me?

#2

You could try using the “Terror Threat Alert” thing, but you’d be stuck with Yellow, Orange, and Red, because I’ve never seen it anything other than those. Of course, someone would finally be putting those colors to good use, so I’m not sure you can use that scale… :-p

Best bet, make up your own, easiest to do, and it’ll make sense to you, which is really the important part.

#3

LOL

Yeah, that’s what I may end up doing (using my own), but I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel if there was something already out there.

#4

You’re in FIRST. I say use the resistor color code that’ll get you 100 codes just using two strips.

#5

Actually, that may just work… Thanks Kevin!

Here I go being picky again… but… from the site.

Black is also easy to remember as zero because of the nothingness common to both.

I thought black was a combination of all the colors, and white was nothing?
Or, did I get that mixed up? <more than likely, the latter…>

#6

Semantics, I’m sure. It all depends on if you’re talking about light or pigments.

With light, white is a mixture of all the colors of light, black is an absence of light.

With pigments, black is a mixture of all the colors of pigments (mostly), white is theoretically an absence of pigments.

The pigments one isn’t as straightforward as the light one cause you actually have to have something in the paint to make it “white” so white is still a pigment. But mostly that’s it.

Anyways, I’m gonna get on memorizing those color codes so I can confuse the kids I’ll be mentoring for programming and controls. And hopefully distract them from the fact that I’m only a few steps ahead of them in learning the system. :smiley:

#7

You can always use the visible light spectrum. ROYGBIV. Then you’ll have a whole rainbow of music.

#8

The resistor color code is a superset of that with values to correspond to digits 0-9. Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white.

You’ll have a rainbow of music with the resistor colorcode nonetheless. :slight_smile:

#9