Rope colors?

For those of you who climb with double ropes, do you use the two different colors in particular ways? For instance, the pink rope is always the left one? I thought of this looking at ice climbing photos. The ropes are almost always two very bright colors, easily distinguished.

Just curious. Again. :-)

Best, H.

Nope. But I do communicate to my partner which is on the right before starting to climb. 

I do. Beal IceLine's - Right on red. The neon pink/red line is always tied on the right side of my harness when using doubles for repel purposes. This lets me know which side to pull through the anchor,

right = red

The rope is actually some sort of pink/purple color, but but when I say "red" people always know what I'm talking about and the letter R mnemonic is helpful.

Not so much color, but someone once told me they buy ropes with different sounding names (that is, one is monosyllabic and the other is polysyllabic - e.g. not green and red, but green and or-ange), so that they can distinguish the difference when asking for more or less rope

I've got an orange and a purple set. It helps on rappel. "Pull on purple"

I, too, have always done red on right while leading (like the boaters "red, right, return" mnemonic).

I pull blue on the first rap, but am then alternating on multipitch, since the first one down is setting up the pull side for the next rap.

Red is right, pull red.. then blue, back to red.

All above is sage advice.  On a bit of another color thought...I used to use solid color ropes only (all you could get) and that worked.  After using a bicolor rope, I will now always pay the extra and never go back to solids.  I have a green bicolor and red bicolor.  Single pitch, multipitch, route setting and using the other end as the tag, there are so many advantages.

Pulling Purple

Rapping Red

Bailing on Blue

Yanking Yellow

Tugging Tan

Grabbing Green

Orienting/Oscillating Orange (this one took me longer to figure out than I would like to admit)

Kyle Tarry wrote:

No.

+1

For rock or ice. 

No but we make sure we both are talking about the same colour scheme first (the body or the tracers).