bingo! i work in a datacenter 
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They sell painterās tape and electrical tape in lots of colors now. Both can be written on with a sharpie. Go wild!
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I use cable labels, something like these.
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I use blue painterās tape. Takes sharpie ink well and doesnāt leave residue on the cables.
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Gaffers tape.
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It is I, Mark Cables. I do very well. How do you?
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I write on both sides of a bit of paper then wrap a flap of sellotape round the cable to pseudo laminate the label.
I later unplug the cable to commandeer it for something else and wonder why the whatsit isnāt talking to the fandango.
Works every time.
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This is what I do as well. Simple, cheap and very durable solution
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After using lots of tape that leaves sticky residue on my cables (including most masking tape after 2-3 years) I found a brand of masking tape that is quite excellent, and doesnāt do this:
I use 2-3 layers of masking tape, and what I do to make it more durable is simply add a layer of (cheap) clear tape of a similar width. That holds everything together well, and all the sticky residue of the clear film remains on the masking tape. Removing that is easy, too.
FWIW, I donāt use color codes, I simply number my cables with a felt tip pen (not a sharpie, that bleeds out too much, and under the clear tape, because then it doesnāt wear), 1ā¦n are mono cables, S1ā¦n are stereo cables, M1ā¦n are multicores, so the numbers are mostly below 10. Thereās a sticky note on the back of my mixer with the current highest number, so labelling a new cable is pretty straightforward.
Itās faster than color coding, (needs only one strip of tape per cable) and cheaper (needs only one color, I light colors because of the contrast).
However, MT has 3mm tape as well, I guess thatās a good option for color coding. Depending on the number of stripes you might need two strips of clear tape to cover it.
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Gaffer taoe and sharpie FTW over here
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white acid free tape I bought for graphic design classes in 1998. I wrap a small āflagā around the end and write what the cable goes to on it. I am not fastidious with this though; itās usually only to mark CV/gate, because often I have to un-plug the cables from the synth to be able to use the keys for it, then re-plug them to sequence it.
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