I have a mnemonic handed on to me by an uncle some 40 years ago. It is certainly memorable, but even then it wasn't something one would repeat in polite company and I'm certainly not going to write it down here.
the mnemonic my
father taught me was not only racist but misogynistic too!
when i spent a lot of time building 'lectronic stuff in the 80s I could pretty much id them by sight from the bands
To make it easier: if it is a 10% (like cheap resistors in the 80s claimed to be) then there are only 12 possible values plus a exponent so you could guess, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_series_of_preferred_numbers for explainer
i agree on various points made above like sometimes the colours are a bit vague and blue ones are more difficult to read
Other parts also use colours too and they are difficult to interpret also
