color bands

Spectrum's distinct zones

Color bands are stripes or rings of distinct colors appearing in sequence.

Electronic resistors use color bands as a coding system to indicate resistance values: The four color bands told him it was a 470-ohm resistor.

Color bands also appear naturally in minerals, rainbows, and animal markings, or artificially in flags, charts, and decorative patterns.

Related

wavelength · light waves · prism · hues · resistor · mood ring · frequency · light · refraction · pigment · paint chips · absorption · layers · rings · chromatic · iridescent · saturation · arc

Opposites
visual pattern structure

color bandssolid color

Single unbroken hue

flat color · monochrome · single color · unpatterned · plain

chromatic differentiation

color bandsmonochrome

Single-color rendering

single color · achromatic · grayscale · colorless · neutral tone

color distribution type

color bandsgradient

Rate of change across space

ombre · color fade

Family

color, colour, colors, colours, colored, coloured, coloring, colouring, colorful

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G