Resistors with ends of the same colour
I asked a similar question a long time ago here but the resistor chart which was mentioned there appears to have moved. So from its new home at itll.colorado.edu here's the diagram, as far as I can tell one band will be thicker signifying it as the tolerance band (no-one responded when I queried whether this was the case in the previous post above so if I'm wrong please let me know).