I color code USB cables by attaching these clips to them. That way I can easily grab the fast charging or a no data one.
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So, this thing is supposed to contain 5 sections

  1. Power
    • Red for Normal Charging
    • Green for Fast Charging
  2. Data
    • Red for No Data transfer support
    • Yellow for Simple Data
    • Green for High Speed Data
  3. Shielding
    • Red for No Shielding (which actually rather results in throwing the cable away, but…)
    • Green for proper shielding
  4. Other
    • Red for nothing more
    • Yellow for OTG cables
    • Green for any higher level function like video support and stuff
    • Blue for the combination of Yellow and Green
  5. Direction Marker
    • Finally a thin black line to show in which order to read the color marker

 

I print in 0.2mm layer height which results in 40 layers and change color (in above-mentioned order) on layers 10, 19, 28, and 37

 

To determine what a cable is capable of, I use a simple USB cable tester tool…

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Model origin

The author remixed this model.

Differences of the remix compared to the original

This is based on the Cable Clip - Clip On Open Cable Marker (MC) by @Wilko and my change is extremely trivial…

I simply downsized the unnumbered version of the Cable Clip so that it sits tighter on a standard USB cable.
And then I print it with different color changes on different layers

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