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guide to pinout diagrams?

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If you google "adafruit pinout drawing" and select images you see a variety of images that show pinout information. Here are two examples:

https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/25646
https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/46243

(what is wrong with my image tags? why aren't they displaying properly?)

Each pin has 4 or 5 pieces of information shown inside of tiny icons which have colors. Usually there is a key. Mostly I can figure these out but sometimes I can't. The key is useful but terse. Is there a guide to these drawings that expands on the one word keys. There seem to be multiple conventions in use. Is this because Adafruit has evolved the style over time? The functionality is usually clear enough but there are multiple numbering schemes and which one means what is not always clear.
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Re: guide to pinout diagrams?

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Which parts are confusing you?

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Re: guide to pinout diagrams?

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When I have problems with specific pins on specific parts I post the question to the appropriate forum. This was a request for general documentation about the naming conventions used in these diagrams.

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Re: guide to pinout diagrams?

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One of those is done by contributor pighixxx and we made the other. The Pro
Trinket seems to be a bit confusing on the analog pins, the orange is for analog input pins.

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