The color code or color code is the system for displaying information using different colors.
The earliest color code samples used are for long distance communications using flags, such as in semaphore communication. The UK adopts a color coding scheme for such communications in which red and safety hazards marked with other colors have similar tasks.
As chemistry and other technologies evolve, it becomes wise to use coloring as a signal to distinguish things that would otherwise be very similar, such as cabling in electrical and electronic devices, and pharmaceutical pills.
The use of color codes has been extended to abstractions, such as the color code of the Domestic Security Advisory System in the United States. Similarly, hospital emergency codes often include colors (such as the widely used "Blue Code" that indicate cardiac arrest), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to uniform standards.
Color codes do present some potential problems. On forms and alerts, the use of colors may distract from black and white text. They are often difficult for the color blind and blind to interpret, and even for those with normal color vision, the use of a large number of colors to code a large number of variables can lead to the use of the same confusing color.
Video Color code
Example
Systems that incorporate color codes include:
- In electronics:
- Power cord - AC power, neutral and ground cables
- Electronic color code - for electronic components
- The jumper cable is used to start the vehicle
- Surround sound and wired port
- Audio connector
- Video connector
- Optical fiber
- Connectors and PC ports
- Three phase electric power (power cord)
- 25-pair color code - telecommunication cable
- Ethernet twisted pair cable - local area network
- In the video game
- Health and magic points
- To distinguish friends from enemies, such as in StarCraft , Halo , or League of Legends
- To differentiate the scarcity or quality of items in adventure games and role plays
- In the navigation:
- Navigational lights
- Seamark
- Character light
- Traffic light
- Other technologies:
- Bottled gas
- Fire extinguishers
- Location of underground utility
- Black hat hacking, white hat, gray hat
- kerbside collection
- In military use:
- NATO Military Symbols for Land Based Systems # Affiliates
- Artillery shells and other ammunition, color-coded according to their pyrotechnic content
- Herbal Moisturizer
- Rainbow Code List
- In social function:
- Cooper Color Code of the war mindset
- ISO 22324, Guidelines for color-coded warnings in public alerts
- Handkerchief code
- Ribbon colors see: Category: ribbon symbolism â â¬
- Rank on Judo
- Blue-collar workers, white-collar workers, pink collar workers, gold collar workers, gray collars, green-collar workers
- At the point of sale (especially for packaging in a wide range of products: to distinguish variants, brands, categories quickly)
Maps Color code
See also
- Secondary notes
References
External links
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