# Anno color question: clear vs silver **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [February 27, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006 "2025-02-27T05:32:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![washyjoshe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/washyjoshe/32/612061_2.png) [@washyjoshe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/washyjoshe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/1 "2025-02-27T05:32:32Z")
Okay, looking at one drop yo-yos, sometimes there is silver anno, and sometimes I see clear. Is clear like a clear coat? And is silver really silver? I feel silly asking this, but to people who have compared them, are they really different? ---
**Author:** ![Upmanyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e68b1a/32.png) [@Upmanyu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Upmanyu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/2 "2025-02-27T05:39:25Z")
Its just anodized raw aluminium without dye as far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![KirbyRobot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kirbyrobot/32/608292_2.png) [@KirbyRobot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/KirbyRobot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/3 "2025-02-27T05:40:24Z")
Clear is a clear coat. Silver could be some silver colored anodization if it isn’t just… a nickname for clear. ---
**Author:** ![washyjoshe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/washyjoshe/32/612061_2.png) [@washyjoshe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/washyjoshe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/4 "2025-02-27T05:44:27Z")
That’s what I was wondering, if they just mean the same thing. Was wondering if someone has a silver and a clear they’ve compared, and if they could tell them apart. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodoc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyodoc/32/48820_2.png) [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/5 "2025-02-27T07:21:34Z")
Upmanyu is correct. Silver is obviously the natural color of aluminum. When an aluminum yo-yo is polished, but not anodized, it is just considered a raw yo-yo that’s been polished When an aluminum yo-yo has been anodized in an assortment of colors, often one of those colors is the natural aluminum color. So while the individual colors of black red, blue green, whatever?… are color anodized, the raw aluminum colored yo-yo is clear anodized. So when a yo-yo is listed in the color options as a clear, yo-yo, it simply means it was subjected to the anodizing process minus any tinting that would alter it from its natural aluminum state. So basically seeing a yo-yo is clear anodized is kinda like saying vanilla ice cream. Just about any other flavor of ice cream besides vanilla is still ice cream but an assortment of different colors and flavors. So if a yo-yo color option is clear, that just means it’s silver. You don’t anodize a yo-yo silver then do some kind of clear anodization over the top of it. If you do, you’re either a mad scientist or a monkey’s uncle. ---
**Author:** ![kevinm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kevinm/32/697_2.png) [@kevinm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kevinm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/6 "2025-02-27T14:09:10Z")
I’m holding out for clear aluminum. All I want to see is string and a bearing. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/7 "2025-02-27T14:23:10Z")
I usually think of silver as blasted and clear as glossy but thinking about it I think they’re the same. ---
**Author:** ![washyjoshe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/washyjoshe/32/612061_2.png) [@washyjoshe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/washyjoshe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/8 "2025-04-25T22:50:30Z")
> [@Yes, there will be another Top Deck run from One Drop](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yes-there-will-be-another-top-deck-run-from-one-drop/362063/132): > > No, it’s just anodizing with no dye. We call it “clear” but it can also be called “silver”. Same thing though. Was reading through some old posts, found this. We were right. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nightshadow/32/1574_2.png) [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006/9 "2025-04-26T00:14:21Z")
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