Yes, I learned the numbers for the colors — simply in the order of the colors of the rainbow, but actually reading the color code is ... is a 1K resistor because it looks like one I was using in ...

Some people look at a venerable resource like resistor color code charts and see something tried and true, but to [Andrew Jeddeloh], there’s room for improvement. A search for a more intuitive ...

Younger electronic engineers may see resistors with old-style color codes to display their values ... sequences of numbers as preferred resistor values than it is to visually decode each one ...