Coloured strings, anyone?

Actual customer guitar (and where did she even get these strings??):







Wowee...what do you think of them?

Colour Me Madd

Ok, Fender, we know you invented a couple of the world's most infamous and widely-used guitars and basses, but you don't have to reinvent *everything*. What I'm referring to is string ball-end colour-coding. Dean Markley all have black ball-ends, Ernie Ball are gold, and D'Addario have a very specific colour system. For those of us in the business of changing strings loads of times a day, we depend on the colour system to guide us because, in the end, it's a lot quicker to remember 6 colours in order than to have to refer to packaging for the right sequence.

That being said, Fender (who only recently joined the colour-coding game) went ahead and put a wrench in the works. D'Addario's gold-red-black-green-purple-silver (an order we got used to and relied on) becomes Fender's confusing gold-red-silver-green-yellow-blue.
Not a big deal, you say? Well, envision a seamstress whose sewing machine needles are colour-coded. If one company decides to mess up the colours and go with their own (for the sake of originality, or whatever), it's disastrous! Ok, maybe it's not so bad in guitar-land, but it's annoying, no?