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Making them separate colors helps with the troubleshooting, as others have said. Also, the color of the left needle will show on the other side (as much as a regular sewing machine's would). So in your actual project, you probably just want to rethread the left needle.
And yeah, overlockers use more thread per inch of sewing than a regular machine would. In my experience though, the cones are a lot bigger than the average spool, more than is proportional.
That makes sense, because i couldn't yet say what and where those loopers and needles are exactly-though i'm doing my homework and looking at videos about sergers, threading, tips and tricks :-)
And good to know about the amount of thread they use. I bought some cones yesterday and the amount of thread on a cone is pretty impressive.
Thanks for your reply!
Ah, i did find something:
https://sewingmastery.com/5-serger-thread-tips-when-selecting-thread-colors/
And also that you can transfer ~~spools to~~ cones to spools, apparently:
https://inv.vern.cc/watch?v=PMnqPRvXKog
Edited because i had it the other way around...
You can use any color you want. Starting with four different colors will help you dial in the tensions. I personally use four rainbow spools, it gives really cool results, and most time overlocked stitches end up either inside or hidden by a top stitch anyway.
Ah, good to know. Rainbow spools sound really cool, i will see if i can find them. Thank you for your answer :-)