Page 63 - Make Your Own PCBs with EAGLE from Schematic Designs to Finished Boards

The easiest way to identify any component is to keep it in a component box that labels exactly
what it is. If, however, the components get mixed up, then through-hole resistors are identified by

their color-coded stripes.
Each color has a value as follows:

Besides representing the fractions 1/10 and 1/100, gold and silver are also used to indicate how
accurate the resistor is, so gold is ±5 percent and silver is ±10 percent.

There generally will be three of these bands together starting at one end of the resistor, a gap, and
then a single band at the other end of the resistor. The single band indicates the accuracy of the