Generating a Random Hex Color in Python

Just store them as an integer with the three channels at different bit offsets (just like they are often stored in memory):

value = (red << 16) + (green << 8) + blue

(If each channel is 0-255). Store that integer in the database and do the reverse operation when you need to get back to the distinct channels.

For generating random anything, take a look at the random module

I would suggest you use the module to generate a random integer, take it’s modulo 2**24, and treat the top 8 bits as R, that middle 8 bits as G and the bottom 8 as B.
It can all be accomplished with div/mod or bitwise operations.

Store it as a HTML color value:

Updated: now accepts both integer (0-255) and float (0.0-1.0) arguments. These will be clamped to their allowed range.

def htmlcolor(r, g, b):
    def _chkarg(a):
        if isinstance(a, int): # clamp to range 0--255
            if a < 0:
                a = 0
            elif a > 255:
                a = 255
        elif isinstance(a, float): # clamp to range 0.0--1.0 and convert to integer 0--255
            if a < 0.0:
                a = 0
            elif a > 1.0:
                a = 255
            else:
                a = int(round(a*255))
        else:
            raise ValueError('Arguments must be integers or floats.')
        return a
    r = _chkarg(r)
    g = _chkarg(g)
    b = _chkarg(b)
    return '#{:02x}{:02x}{:02x}'.format(r,g,b)

Result:

In [14]: htmlcolor(250,0,0)
Out[14]: '#fa0000'

In [15]: htmlcolor(127,14,54)
Out[15]: '#7f0e36'

In [16]: htmlcolor(0.1, 1.0, 0.9)
Out[16]: '#19ffe5'

import random

def hex_code_colors():
    a = hex(random.randrange(0,256))
    b = hex(random.randrange(0,256))
    c = hex(random.randrange(0,256))
    a = a[2:]
    b = b[2:]
    c = c[2:]
    if len(a)<2:
        a = "0" + a
    if len(b)<2:
        b = "0" + b
    if len(c)<2:
        c = "0" + c
    z = a + b + c
    return "#" + z.upper()

Here is a simple way:

import random
color = "%06x" % random.randint(0, 0xFFFFFF)

To generate a random 3 char color:

import random
color = "%03x" % random.randint(0, 0xFFF)

%x in C-based languages is a string formatter to format integers as hexadecimal strings while 0x is the prefix to write numbers in base-16.

Colors can be prefixed with “#” if needed (CSS style)

hex_digits = ['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','a','b','c','d','e','f']

digit_array = []

for i in xrange(6):
    digit_array.append(hex_digits[randint(0,15)])
joined_digits = ''.join(digit_array)

color = '#' + joined_digits

little late to the party,

import random
chars = '0123456789ABCDEF'
['#'+''.join(random.sample(chars,6)) for i in range(N)]

import random

def generate_color():
    color = '#{:02x}{:02x}{:02x}'.format(*map(lambda x: random.randint(0, 255), range(3)))
    return color

This has been done before. Rather than implementing this yourself, possibly introducing errors, you may want to use a ready library, for example Faker. Have a look at the color providers, in particular hex_digit.

In [1]: from faker import Factory

In [2]: fake = Factory.create()

In [3]: fake.hex_color()
Out[3]: u'#3cae6a'

In [4]: fake.hex_color()
Out[4]: u'#5a9e28'

So many ways to do this, so here’s a demo using “colorutils“.

pip install colorutils

It is possible to generate random values in (RGB, HEX, WEB, YIQ, HSV).

# docs and downloads at 
# https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorutils/

from colorutils import random_web
from tkinter import Tk, Button

mgui = Tk()
mgui.geometry('150x28+400+200')


def rcolor():
    rn = random_web()
    print(rn)  # for terminal watchers
    cbutton.config(text=rn)
    mgui.config(bg=rn)


cbutton = Button(text="Click", command=rcolor)
cbutton.pack()

mgui.mainloop()

I certainly hope that was helpful.

Basically, this will give you a hashtag, a randint that gets converted to hex, and a padding of zeroes.

from random import randint
color = '#{:06x}'.format(randint(0, 256**3))
#Use the colors wherever you need!

import random

def get_random_hex:
    random_number = random.randint(0,16777215)

    # convert to hexadecimal
    hex_number = str(hex(random_number))

    # remove 0x and prepend '#'
    return'#'+ hex_number[2:]

Would like to improve upon this solution as I found that it could generate color codes that have less than 6 characters. I also wanted to generate a function that would create a list that can be used else where such as for clustering in matplotlib.

import random

def get_random_hex:
    random_number = random.randint(0,16777215)

    # convert to hexadecimal
    hex_number = str(hex(random_number))

    # remove 0x and prepend '#'
    return'#'+ hex_number[2:]

My proposal is :

import numpy as np 

def color_generator (no_colors):
    colors = []
    while len(colors) < no_colors:
        random_number = np.random.randint(0,16777215)
        hex_number = format(random_number, 'x')
        if len(hex_number) == 6: 
            hex_number = '#'+ hex_number
            colors.append (hex_number)
    return colors

Here’s a simple code that I wrote based on what hexadecimal color notations represent:

import random 

def getRandomCol():
    
    r = hex(random.randrange(0, 255))[2:]
    g = hex(random.randrange(0, 255))[2:]
    b = hex(random.randrange(0, 255))[2:]

    random_col = '#'+r+g+b
    return random_col

The ‘#’ in the hexadecimal color code just represents that the number represented is just a hexadecimal number. What’s important is the next 6 digits. Pairs of 2 digits in those 6 hexadecimal digits represent the intensity of RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) each. The intensity of each color ranges between 0-255 and a combination of different intensities of RGB produces different colors.

For example, in #ff00ff, the first ff is equivalent to 255 in decimal, the next 00 is equivalent to 0 in decimal, and the last ff is equivalent to 255 in decimal. Therefore, #ff00ff in hexadecimal color coding is equivalent to RGB(255, 0, 255).

With this concept, here’s the explanation of my approach:

1. Generated intensities of random numbers for each of r, g
   and b
2. Converted those intensities into hexadecimal
3. Ignored the first 2 characters of each hexadecimal value '0x'
4. Concatenated '#' with the hexadecimal values r, g and b
   intensities.

Feel free to refer to this link if you wanna know more about how colors work: https://hackernoon.com/hex-colors-how-do-they-work-d8cb935ac0f

Cheers!

import secrets

# generate 4 sets of 2-digit hex chars for a color with transparency
rgba = f"#{secrets.token_hex(4)}" # example return: "#ffff0000"

# generate 3 sets of 2-digit hex chars for a non-alpha color
rgb = f"#{secrets.token_hex(3)}" # example return: "#ab12ce"

Hi, maybe i could help with the next function that generate random Hex colors :

from colour import Color
import random as random
def Hex_color():
    L = '0123456789ABCDEF'
    return Color('#'+ ''.join([random.choice(L) for i in range(6)][:]))

from random import randbytes

randbytes(3).hex()

output

f5f2c9

There are a lot of complex answers here, this is what I used for a code of mine using one import line and one line to get a random code:

import random as r
hex_color = '#' + ''.join([r.choice('0123456789ABCDEF') for _ in range(6)])
print(hex_color)

The output will be something like:
#3F67CD

If you want to make a list of color values, let’s say, of 10 random colors, you can do the following:

import random as r
num_colors = 10
hex_colors = ['#' + ''.join([r.choice('0123456789ABCDEF') for _ in range(6)]) for _ in range(num_colors)]
print(hex_colors)

And the output will be a list containing ten different random colors:

['#F13AB2', '#0F952F', '#DC0EFA', '#4ACD2A', '#61DD4A', '#CD53AF', '#8DF4F2', '#325038', '#6BC5EE', '#B90901']

I hope that helps!