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Appendix D Industry-Standard Wiring Plans
Telephone Wire Color Codes
Cables with more than 25 pairs of wires are constructed from 25-pair groups. Very large cables have
other variations generally not encountered inside terminal wire plants.
For small wiring groups, such as wires for an individual telephone station or terminal, you may use a
second color-code scheme.
Table D-2
lists this color code and the usual correspondence with the
paired-wire color code. The alternate color code is included, because sometimes the station wire uses
the first three pairs of the standard color code (white-blue, blue-white, and so on), while other times it
uses the six alternate color wires.
19
1
Yellow
Brown
44
19
2
Brown
Yellow
19
20
1
Yellow
Slate
45
20
2
Slate
Yellow
20
21
1
Violet
Blue
46
21
2
Blue
Violet
21
22
1
Violet
Orange
47
22
2
Orange
Violet
22
23
1
Violet
Green
48
23
2
Green
Violet
23
24
1
Violet
Brown
49
24
2
Brown
Violet
24
25
1
Violet
Slate
50
25
2
Slate
Violet
25
Table D-2
Telephone Industry 25-Pair Color Code and Pin Numbers (continued)
Pair Number
Wire Number
Solid Color
Stripe Color
Pin Number
Table D-3
Alternate Color-Code Scheme for Smaller Numbers of Wires
Pair Number
Wire Number
Solid Color
Stripe Color
Alternate Color Pin Number
1
1
White
Blue
Green
4
1
2
Blue
White
Red
3
2
1
White
Orange
Black
2
2
2
Orange
White
Yellow
5
3
1
White
Green
White
1
3
2
Green
White
Blue
6