color coded sockets and wrenches.

[85camaro]

Off the top of my head, I can think of Duralast and Kobalt that use a red or blue line to identify metric/standard on sockets, and a blue or red dot to identify metric/standard on wrenches.

I think Kobalt are good tools, but those blue and red marks look tacky to me. It makes them look amateurish, IMO. I don't know, maybe I'm being too picky.

 

[bbs lm-r]

I don't know any part numbers off the top of my head, but I know Matco has socket sets that have their socket sizes colored into each socket, red - std/blue - metric.

Actually, I just looked on their site, and it looks like most of their sets come marked like that.

If it helps identify a size quicker, I personally could care less how they looked. Right now the closest I've come to ID'ing my sockets like that is std on red rails and metric on blue rails. If I could find a good way to color in the sizes myself, I would.

 

[ishiboo]

Off the top of my head, I can think of Duralast and Kobalt that use a red or blue line to identify metric/standard on sockets, and a blue or red dot to identify metric/standard on wrenches.

I think Kobalt are good tools, but those blue and red marks look tacky to me. It makes them look amateurish, IMO. I don't know, maybe I'm being too picky.

I like the blue/red color coding, I also have some Rogue ratcheting hex keys which use the same scheme. The Kobalt sockets color-coding is an epoxy fill in a stamped recess, which I like. The wrenches, on the other hand, have a painted-on finish on the polished surface which wears easily... not robust at all.

It comes in handy when you have a mix of SAE/metric tools out on a project.