<p>All right, not to change whatever conversation you guys were having, but I just saw this post and had to laugh at the title.</p>
<p>If you’re referring to the actual color of the pencil’s wood, it does not matter. The yellow ones write just like the blue ones, which write identically to the ones without paint on them. The only difference might be in the type of lead (see below).</p>
<p>If you are referring to the shade of gray represented by the number, only get a #2. Chances are you will have to take a bubble sheet test at some point, and you’ll need a #2 for that.</p>
<p>And finally, if you’re referring to colored pencils, I’d take a pack, personally. I occasionally will color code something, especially in a math or chemistry course, when I am doing practice problems to help me see the concept. If you’re a visual learner I recommend this. The best colored pencils are Col-Erase (sometimes hard to find, Office Depot usually has them). They erase well, write nice, and don’t break easily like some of the cheap ones marketed to eight year olds will. My grandfather, an engineer, used these all the time.</p>
<p>One last comment–don’t use a golf pencil with no eraser. You will make a mistake at some point, I kid you not, and you will have to erase it.</p>
<p>Foul-ups happen. Once I almost made a misteak. :-)</p>