Using colour codes

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I'm interested to know if anyone else uses colours or colour codes at school, at work or home?

At work (factory), everything is pretty much color-coded, due to the fact that some of the workers are new (helps one perform their tasks more efficiently), don't speak English or are otherwise not sufficiently literate.
At my other job, some items are color-coded (threat matrix codes or link associations), but nowhere as extensively as the aforementioned location.

I have never used color codes, but I have seen lots of people use them. In high school, I used to watch people take color-coded notes in class.

I teach children with autism and find they respond well following colour codes so it's interesting to know that they are being used to help communicate to workers who do not speak English.



I used to underline my notes with colours at Uni to revise. I'd forgotten I did that. Love your blog too - thank you for that

Resistor Color Code

0 Black
1 Brown
2 Red
3 Orange
4 Yellow
5 Green
6 Blue
7 Violet
8 Grey
9 White

I'm hoping to start doing this, eventually. Things marked with purple tape are area/objects that are not to be disturbed ever. It's a way of keeping some control over the consistency of my environment.

That's so interesting - My class (8 children with autism) all agree that 'facts are purple' Do you have any other colours you link in this way?

I don't use color regularly to organize everything (although I probably should), but I've used it for small projects. My default color is purple, which is my absolute favorite color. I'll gravitate towards that before anything else. When I buy notebooks -- which I do alot because I write a lot -- if one is for some type of financial tracking, it's going to be green. I bought a pink one when I was keeping up with my menopause symptoms (pink for girls, silly). Red is for anything that is very important and needs to be remembered or noted.

I do something similar. Except, I color code my notebooks by class subject. This semester, my sister gave me three notebooks of the same color and I have trouble finding the right notebook when I need it.