Discord Hex Color Picker

A hex colour is three bytes written in base 16: two digits each for red, green and blue. #5865F2 is red 88, green 101, blue 242. The shorthand three-digit form expands by doubling each digit, so #F0A is #FF00AA.

Discord's API stores colours as a single decimal integer rather than a string, so #5865F2 is transmitted as 5793266. Converting is just base 16 to base 10 - the same number written differently, not a different colour.

Alpha is not part of this. Discord role and embed colours are fully opaque, so an eight-digit hex with transparency is either rejected or silently truncated to its first six digits.

Colours chosen one at a time tend not to sit well together, because hue is only one of three variables. Palettes that look deliberate usually hold saturation and lightness roughly constant and vary hue, which is what makes a set feel like a family.

For anything text sits on, contrast ratio matters more than the colour. A palette that looks balanced as swatches can be unreadable as text, and the only reliable check is measuring the ratio rather than trusting the eye.

The formula is red * 65536 + green * 256 + blue. Since most people do not want to multiply, this tool does it instantly. Knowing the decimal value is the fastest way to set a role color through bot config.