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I am trying to use hex color values in Swift, instead of the few standard ones that UIColor allows you to use, but I have no idea how to do it.

Example: how would I use #ffffff as a color?

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    #ffffff are actually 3 color components in hexadecimal notation - red ff, green ff and blue ff. You can write hexadecimal notation in Swift using 0x prefix, e.g 0xFF. Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 11:57
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    The answer here should help you out stackoverflow.com/questions/24196528/…. Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 11:58
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    possible duplicate of How to use UIColorFromRGB value in Swift Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 14:56

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#ffffff are actually 3 color components in hexadecimal notation - red ff, green ff and blue ff. You can write hexadecimal notation in Swift using 0x prefix, e.g 0xFF

To simplify the conversion, let's create an initializer that takes integer (0 - 255) values:

extension UIColor {
   convenience init(red: Int, green: Int, blue: Int) {
       assert(red >= 0 && red <= 255, "Invalid red component")
       assert(green >= 0 && green <= 255, "Invalid green component")
       assert(blue >= 0 && blue <= 255, "Invalid blue component")

       self.init(red: CGFloat(red) / 255.0, green: CGFloat(green) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat(blue) / 255.0, alpha: 1.0)
   }

   convenience init(rgb: Int) {
       self.init(
           red: (rgb >> 16) & 0xFF,
           green: (rgb >> 8) & 0xFF,
           blue: rgb & 0xFF
       )
   }
}

Usage:

let color = UIColor(red: 0xFF, green: 0xFF, blue: 0xFF)
let color2 = UIColor(rgb: 0xFFFFFF)

How to get alpha?

Depending on your use case, you can simply use the native UIColor.withAlphaComponent method, e.g.

let semitransparentBlack = UIColor(rgb: 0x000000).withAlphaComponent(0.5)

Or you can add an additional (optional) parameter to the above methods:

convenience init(red: Int, green: Int, blue: Int, a: CGFloat = 1.0) {
    self.init(
        red: CGFloat(red) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat(green) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(blue) / 255.0,
        alpha: a
    )
}

convenience init(rgb: Int, a: CGFloat = 1.0) {
    self.init(
        red: (rgb >> 16) & 0xFF,
        green: (rgb >> 8) & 0xFF,
        blue: rgb & 0xFF,
        a: a
    )
}

(we cannot name the parameter alpha because of a name collision with the existing initializer).

Called as:

let color = UIColor(red: 0xFF, green: 0xFF, blue: 0xFF, a: 0.5)
let color2 = UIColor(rgb: 0xFFFFFF, a: 0.5)

To get the alpha as an integer 0-255, we can

convenience init(red: Int, green: Int, blue: Int, a: Int = 0xFF) {
    self.init(
        red: CGFloat(red) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat(green) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(blue) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(a) / 255.0
    )
}

// let's suppose alpha is the first component (ARGB)
convenience init(argb: Int) {
    self.init(
        red: (argb >> 16) & 0xFF,
        green: (argb >> 8) & 0xFF,
        blue: argb & 0xFF,
        a: (argb >> 24) & 0xFF
    )
}

Called as

let color = UIColor(red: 0xFF, green: 0xFF, blue: 0xFF, a: 0xFF)
let color2 = UIColor(argb: 0xFFFFFFFF)

Or a combination of the previous methods. There is absolutely no need to use strings.

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@confile No, because that's not standardized. Alpha can be the first component or the last. If you need alpha, just add one parameter alpha
Same solution, Swift 1.2 compatible, with alpha support: gist.github.com/berikv/ecf1f79c5bc9921c47ef
For explanation of how this works, see this Apple Doc
Why not use UInt8 instead of asserting that your ints are in range 0...255?
@jrc @RichardVenable Apple recommends to use Int even when only unsigned values are expected. Using one type simplifies operations, especially when we are working in a language without implicit casts.
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This is a function that takes a hex string and returns a UIColor.
(You can enter hex strings with either format: #ffffff or ffffff)

Usage:

var color1 = hexStringToUIColor("#d3d3d3")

Swift 5: (Swift 4+)

func hexStringToUIColor(hex: String) -> UIColor {
    var cString = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()
    
    if cString.hasPrefix("#") {
        cString.remove(at: cString.startIndex)
    }
    
    if cString.count != 6 {
        return UIColor.gray
    }
    
    var rgbValue:UInt64 = 0
    Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt64(&rgbValue)
    
    return UIColor(
        red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
    )
}

Swift 3:

func hexStringToUIColor(hex: String) -> UIColor {
    var cString:String = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()
    
    if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
        cString.remove(at: cString.startIndex)
    }
    
    if ((cString.characters.count) != 6) {
        return UIColor.gray
    }
    
    var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
    Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)
    
    return UIColor(
        red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
    )
}

Swift 2:

func hexStringToUIColor(hex: String) -> UIColor {
    var cString:String = hex.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet() as NSCharacterSet).uppercaseString

    if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
      cString = cString.substringFromIndex(cString.startIndex.advancedBy(1))
    }

    if ((cString.characters.count) != 6) {
      return UIColor.grayColor()
    }

    var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
    NSScanner(string: cString).scanHexInt(&rgbValue)

    return UIColor(
        red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
    )
}

Source: arshad/gist:de147c42d7b3063ef7bc

Edit: Updated the code. Thanks, Hlung, jaytrixz, Ahmad F, Kegham K, and Adam Waite!

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countelements is now just count :)
@Hlung and @ethanstrider it looks like they don't even let you do count now instead of countElements, any idea what they want us to use?
Changed this line of code cString = cString.substringFromIndex(advance(cString.startIndex, 1)) to cString = cString.substringFromIndex(cString.startIndex.advancedBy(1)) for Swift 2.2 Xcode 7.3
If you are still supporting iPhone 5 or any 32 bit devices prior to iOS 11 it will crash. You need to change the UInt32 to UInt64
Xcode 11 and the iOS13 SDK deprecates scanHexInt32. Use a UInt64 and scanHexInt64 instead.
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Swift 5 (Swift 4, Swift 3) UIColor extension:

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hexString: String) {
        let hex = hexString.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.alphanumerics.inverted)
        var int = UInt64()
        Scanner(string: hex).scanHexInt64(&int)
        let a, r, g, b: UInt64
        switch hex.count {
        case 3: // RGB (12-bit)
            (a, r, g, b) = (255, (int >> 8) * 17, (int >> 4 & 0xF) * 17, (int & 0xF) * 17)
        case 6: // RGB (24-bit)
            (a, r, g, b) = (255, int >> 16, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
        case 8: // ARGB (32-bit)
            (a, r, g, b) = (int >> 24, int >> 16 & 0xFF, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
        default:
            (a, r, g, b) = (255, 0, 0, 0)
        }
        self.init(red: CGFloat(r) / 255, green: CGFloat(g) / 255, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255, alpha: CGFloat(a) / 255)
    }
}

Usage:

let darkGrey = UIColor(hexString: "#757575")

Swift 2.x version:

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hexString: String) {
        let hex = hexString.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.alphanumericCharacterSet().invertedSet)
        var int = UInt32()
        NSScanner(string: hex).scanHexInt(&int)
        let a, r, g, b: UInt32
        switch hex.characters.count {
        case 3: // RGB (12-bit)
            (a, r, g, b) = (255, (int >> 8) * 17, (int >> 4 & 0xF) * 17, (int & 0xF) * 17)
        case 6: // RGB (24-bit)
            (a, r, g, b) = (255, int >> 16, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
        case 8: // ARGB (32-bit)
            (a, r, g, b) = (int >> 24, int >> 16 & 0xFF, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
        default:
            (a, r, g, b) = (255, 0, 0, 0)
        }
        self.init(red: CGFloat(r) / 255, green: CGFloat(g) / 255, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255, alpha: CGFloat(a) / 255)
    }
}
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This is my favorite implementation because of the way it handles the 3 cases. But I prefer the default: case to return nil, instead of white.
by the way, the default case in this implementation seems to be UIColor.yellow()
I know how to use it and it works like a charm. But I don't really understand why. Maybe someone can give me an explanation or some good links/words to search?
This does not work correctly with alpha values. e.g. Both inputs "ff00ff00" and "#ff00ff00" will output an RGBA of 0 1 0 1. (It should be 1 0 1 0). The input "#ff00ff" results in 1 0 1 1, which is correct. (Xcode 8.2.1, iOS 9.3.)
@Womble the first component is the alpha not the last one. So "#ff00ff00" has alpha 1 because of the "ff" at the beginning. I think you meant "#00ff00ff". Another example: "#ff00ff00" this is green with alpha 1, "#0000ff00" this is green with alpha 0
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UIColor:

extension UIColor {

    convenience init(hex: Int) {
        let components = (
            R: CGFloat((hex >> 16) & 0xff) / 255,
            G: CGFloat((hex >> 08) & 0xff) / 255,
            B: CGFloat((hex >> 00) & 0xff) / 255
        )
        self.init(red: components.R, green: components.G, blue: components.B, alpha: 1)
    }

}

CGColor:

extension CGColor {

    class func colorWithHex(hex: Int) -> CGColorRef {

        return UIColor(hex: hex).CGColor

    }

}

Usage

let purple = UIColor(hex: 0xAB47BC)
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In my humble opinion, I found this the easiest to use and very clear compared to other answers.
How would you handle 123ABC? The compiler is burking at it not being a digit.
for completeness: let foo: Int = 0x123ABC - note the '0x'
Alas, like many other hex converters, this doesn't handle alpha components. So, for example, you can't get a UIColor.clear value from it.
While it doesn't handle alpha @Womble, it's trivial to add. I had to set an explicit type for "components" to prevent the Swift compiler from "taking too long" and giving up.
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I've merged a few ideas from this thread of answers and updated it for iOS 13 & Swift 5.

extension UIColor {
  
  convenience init(_ hex: String, alpha: CGFloat = 1.0) {
    var cString = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()
    
    if cString.hasPrefix("#") { cString.removeFirst() }
    
    if cString.count != 6 {
      self.init("ff0000") // return red color for wrong hex input
      return
    }
    
    var rgbValue: UInt64 = 0
    Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt64(&rgbValue)
    
    self.init(red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
              green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
              blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
              alpha: alpha)
  }

}

You can then use it like this:

UIColor("#ff0000") // with #
UIColor("ff0000")  // without #
UIColor("ff0000", alpha: 0.5) // using optional alpha value
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Swift 4 : Combining the answers of Sulthan and Luca Torella :

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hexFromString:String, alpha:CGFloat = 1.0) {
        var cString:String = hexFromString.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()
        var rgbValue:UInt32 = 10066329 //color #999999 if string has wrong format

        if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
            cString.remove(at: cString.startIndex)
        }

        if ((cString.count) == 6) {
            Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)
        }

        self.init(
            red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
            green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
            blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
            alpha: alpha
        )
    }
}

Usage examples:

let myColor = UIColor(hexFromString: "4F9BF5")

let myColor = UIColor(hexFromString: "#4F9BF5")

let myColor = UIColor(hexFromString: "#4F9BF5", alpha: 0.5)
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This should be the accepted answer, thank u very much.
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Swift 5.3 & SwiftUI: Hex and CSS color name support via a UIColor

Gist code

Swift Package

SwiftUI Package

Example strings:

  • Orange, Lime, Tomato, etc.
  • Clear, Transparent, nil, and empty string yield [UIColor clearColor]
  • abc
  • abc7
  • #abc7
  • 00FFFF
  • #00FFFF
  • 00FFFF77

Playground output: Playground output

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The simplest way to add color programmatically is by using ColorLiteral.

Just add the property ColorLiteral as shown in the example, Xcode will prompt you with a whole list of colors which you can choose. The advantage of doing so is lesser code, add HEX values or RGB. You will also get the recently used colors from the storyboard.

Example: self.view.backgroundColor = ColorLiteral enter image description here

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Wow! you are the champ... I was looking for a really simple solution... This is the one... Cheers...
This is useful!
Currently the easiest and the best solution if the color is not set dynamically
Does ColorLitreal support Hex Color Code?
@Saurav_97 choose other option which you can see it in the attached image above and you will be able to set Hex value
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With Swift 2.0 and Xcode 7.0.1 you can create this function:

    // Creates a UIColor from a Hex string.
    func colorWithHexString (hex:String) -> UIColor {
        var cString:String = hex.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet()).uppercaseString

        if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
            cString = (cString as NSString).substringFromIndex(1)
        }

        if (cString.characters.count != 6) {
            return UIColor.grayColor()
        }

        let rString = (cString as NSString).substringToIndex(2)
        let gString = ((cString as NSString).substringFromIndex(2) as NSString).substringToIndex(2)
        let bString = ((cString as NSString).substringFromIndex(4) as NSString).substringToIndex(2)

        var r:CUnsignedInt = 0, g:CUnsignedInt = 0, b:CUnsignedInt = 0;
        NSScanner(string: rString).scanHexInt(&r)
        NSScanner(string: gString).scanHexInt(&g)
        NSScanner(string: bString).scanHexInt(&b)


        return UIColor(red: CGFloat(r) / 255.0, green: CGFloat(g) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255.0, alpha: CGFloat(1))
    }

and then use it in this way:

let color1 = colorWithHexString("#1F437C")

Updated For Swift 4

func colorWithHexString (hex:String) -> UIColor {

    var cString = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()

    if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
        cString = (cString as NSString).substring(from: 1)
    }

    if (cString.characters.count != 6) {
        return UIColor.gray
    }

    let rString = (cString as NSString).substring(to: 2)
    let gString = ((cString as NSString).substring(from: 2) as NSString).substring(to: 2)
    let bString = ((cString as NSString).substring(from: 4) as NSString).substring(to: 2)

    var r:CUnsignedInt = 0, g:CUnsignedInt = 0, b:CUnsignedInt = 0;
    Scanner(string: rString).scanHexInt32(&r)
    Scanner(string: gString).scanHexInt32(&g)
    Scanner(string: bString).scanHexInt32(&b)


    return UIColor(red: CGFloat(r) / 255.0, green: CGFloat(g) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255.0, alpha: CGFloat(1))
}
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Here's what I'm using. Works with 6 and 8 character color strings, with or without the # symbol. Defaults to black in release and crashes in debug when initialized with an invalid string.

extension UIColor {
    public convenience init(hex: String) {
        var r: CGFloat = 0
        var g: CGFloat = 0
        var b: CGFloat = 0
        var a: CGFloat = 1

        let hexColor = hex.replacingOccurrences(of: "#", with: "")
        let scanner = Scanner(string: hexColor)
        var hexNumber: UInt64 = 0
        var valid = false

        if scanner.scanHexInt64(&hexNumber) {
            if hexColor.count == 8 {
                r = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0xff000000) >> 24) / 255
                g = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0x00ff0000) >> 16) / 255
                b = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0x0000ff00) >> 8) / 255
                a = CGFloat(hexNumber & 0x000000ff) / 255
                valid = true
            }
            else if hexColor.count == 6 {
                r = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0xff0000) >> 16) / 255
                g = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0x00ff00) >> 8) / 255
                b = CGFloat(hexNumber & 0x0000ff) / 255
                valid = true
            }
        }

        #if DEBUG
            assert(valid, "UIColor initialized with invalid hex string")
        #endif

        self.init(red: r, green: g, blue: b, alpha: a)
    }
}

Usage:

UIColor(hex: "#75CC83FF")
UIColor(hex: "75CC83FF")
UIColor(hex: "#75CC83")
UIColor(hex: "75CC83")
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Warning "'scanHexInt32' was deprecated in iOS 13.0" was fixed.

The sample should work on Swift2.2 and above(Swift2.x, Swift3.x, Swift4.x, Swift5.x):

extension UIColor {

    // hex sample: 0xf43737
    convenience init(_ hex: Int, alpha: Double = 1.0) {
        self.init(red: CGFloat((hex >> 16) & 0xFF) / 255.0, green: CGFloat((hex >> 8) & 0xFF) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat((hex) & 0xFF) / 255.0, alpha: CGFloat(255 * alpha) / 255)
    }

    convenience init(_ hexString: String, alpha: Double = 1.0) {
        let hex = hexString.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.alphanumerics.inverted)
        var int = UInt64()
        Scanner(string: hex).scanHexInt64(&int)

        let r, g, b: UInt64
        switch hex.count {
        case 3: // RGB (12-bit)
            (r, g, b) = ((int >> 8) * 17, (int >> 4 & 0xF) * 17, (int & 0xF) * 17)
        case 6: // RGB (24-bit)
            (r, g, b) = (int >> 16, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
        default:
            (r, g, b) = (1, 1, 0)
        }

        self.init(red: CGFloat(r) / 255, green: CGFloat(g) / 255, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255, alpha: CGFloat(255 * alpha) / 255)
    }

    convenience init(r: CGFloat, g: CGFloat, b: CGFloat, a: CGFloat = 1) {
        self.init(red: (r / 255), green: (g / 255), blue: (b / 255), alpha: a)
    }
}

Use them like below:

UIColor(0xF54A45)
UIColor(0xF54A45, alpha: 0.7)
UIColor("#f44")
UIColor("#f44", alpha: 0.7)
UIColor("#F54A45")
UIColor("#F54A45", alpha: 0.7)
UIColor("F54A45")
UIColor("F54A45", alpha: 0.7)
UIColor(r: 245.0, g: 73, b: 69)
UIColor(r: 245.0, g: 73, b: 69, a: 0.7)

enter image description here

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'scanHexInt32' was deprecated in iOS 13.0
@Dimitar Stefanovski I've fixed that.
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This answer shows how to do it in Obj-C. The bridge is to use 

let rgbValue = 0xFFEEDD
let r = Float((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16)/255.0
let g = Float((rgbValue & 0xFF00) >> 8)/255.0
let b = Float((rgbValue & 0xFF))/255.0
self.backgroundColor = UIColor(red:r, green: g, blue: b, alpha: 1.0)
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Swift 5: You can create colors in Xcode as explained in the following two images:

enter image description here

You should name the color because you reference the color by the name. As shown in image 2:

enter image description here

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I didn't realise you could define colours as Assets. Really glad I found this answer!
Hex option seems to have disappeared but this idea got me somewhere
i cant find the color pane on the right in xcode 13. was it removed?
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Another method

Swift 3.0

Write a extension for UIColor

// To change the HexaDecimal value to Corresponding Color
extension UIColor
{
    class func uicolorFromHex(_ rgbValue:UInt32, alpha : CGFloat)->UIColor

    {
        let red = CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0
        let green = CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF00) >> 8) / 255.0
        let blue = CGFloat(rgbValue & 0xFF) / 255.0
        return UIColor(red:red, green:green, blue:blue, alpha: alpha)
    }
}

you can directly create UIColor with hex like this

let carrot = UIColor.uicolorFromHex(0xe67e22, alpha: 1))
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Xcode 13.2.1, M1, Swift 5.5

We can use Hex in ColorLiterals

type #colorLiteral( in Xcode and that will trigger and fix the bug related to ColorLiterals

then click in other

enter image description here

and then select RGB slider and you can see now the panel for Hex

enter image description here

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Here's a Swift extension on UIColor that takes a hex string:

import UIKit

extension UIColor {

    convenience init(hexString: String) {
        // Trim leading '#' if needed
        var cleanedHexString = hexString
        if hexString.hasPrefix("#") {
//            cleanedHexString = dropFirst(hexString) // Swift 1.2
            cleanedHexString = String(hexString.characters.dropFirst()) // Swift 2
        }

        // String -> UInt32
        var rgbValue: UInt32 = 0
        NSScanner(string: cleanedHexString).scanHexInt(&rgbValue)

        // UInt32 -> R,G,B
        let red = CGFloat((rgbValue >> 16) & 0xff) / 255.0
        let green = CGFloat((rgbValue >> 08) & 0xff) / 255.0
        let blue = CGFloat((rgbValue >> 00) & 0xff) / 255.0

        self.init(red: red, green: green, blue: blue, alpha: 1.0)
    }

}
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what is drop drop first ?
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Latest swift3 Version

        extension UIColor {
convenience init(hexString: String) {
    let hex = hexString.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.alphanumerics.inverted)
    var int = UInt32()
    Scanner(string: hex).scanHexInt32(&int)
    let a, r, g, b: UInt32
    switch hex.characters.count {
    case 3: // RGB (12-bit)
        (a, r, g, b) = (255, (int >> 8) * 17, (int >> 4 & 0xF) * 17, (int & 0xF) * 17)
    case 6: // RGB (24-bit)
        (a, r, g, b) = (255, int >> 16, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
    case 8: // ARGB (32-bit)
        (a, r, g, b) = (int >> 24, int >> 16 & 0xFF, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
    default:
        (a, r, g, b) = (255, 0, 0, 0)
    }
      self.init(red: CGFloat(r) / 255, green: CGFloat(g) / 255, blue:      CGFloat(b) / 255, alpha: CGFloat(a) / 255)
}
}

Use in your class or where ever you converted into hexcolor to uicolor like in this way

             let color1 = UIColor(hexString: "#FF323232")
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public static func hexStringToUIColor (hex:String) -> UIColor {
    var cString:String = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()

    if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
        cString.remove(at: cString.startIndex)
    }

    if ((cString.characters.count) == 6) {

        var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
        Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)

        return UIColor(
            red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
            green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
            blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
            alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
        )
    }else if ((cString.characters.count) == 8) {

        var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
        Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)

        return UIColor(
            red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
            green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x0000FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
            blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x000000FF) / 255.0,
            alpha: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF000000) >> 24) / 255.0
        )
    }else{
        return UIColor.gray
    }
}

How to use

var color: UIColor = hexStringToUIColor(hex: "#00ff00"); // Without transparency
var colorWithTransparency: UIColor = hexStringToUIColor(hex: "#dd00ff00"); // With transparency
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Simple Color Extension for Swift 5/SwiftUI

Example:

let myColor = Color(hex:0xF2C94C)

Code:

import Foundation
import SwiftUI

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hex: Int) {
        let components = (
            R: CGFloat((hex >> 16) & 0xff) / 255,
            G: CGFloat((hex >> 08) & 0xff) / 255,
            B: CGFloat((hex >> 00) & 0xff) / 255
        )
        self.init(red: components.R, green: components.G, blue: components.B, alpha: 1)
    }
}

extension Color {
    public init(hex: Int) {
        self.init(UIColor(hex: hex))
   }
}
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Hex with validation

Based on Eduardo answer

Details

  • Xcode 10.0, Swift 4.2
  • Xcode 10.2.1 (10E1001), Swift 5

Solution

import UIKit

extension UIColor {

    convenience init(r: UInt8, g: UInt8, b: UInt8, alpha: CGFloat = 1.0) {
        let divider: CGFloat = 255.0
        self.init(red: CGFloat(r)/divider, green: CGFloat(g)/divider, blue: CGFloat(b)/divider, alpha: alpha)
    }

    private convenience init(rgbWithoutValidation value: Int32, alpha: CGFloat = 1.0) {
        self.init(
            r: UInt8((value & 0xFF0000) >> 16),
            g: UInt8((value & 0x00FF00) >> 8),
            b: UInt8(value & 0x0000FF),
            alpha: alpha
        )
    }

    convenience init?(rgb: Int32, alpha: CGFloat = 1.0) {
        if rgb > 0xFFFFFF || rgb < 0 { return nil }
        self.init(rgbWithoutValidation: rgb, alpha: alpha)
    }

    convenience init?(hex: String, alpha: CGFloat = 1.0) {
        var charSet = CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines
        charSet.insert("#")
        let _hex = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: charSet)
        guard _hex.range(of: "^[0-9A-Fa-f]{6}$", options: .regularExpression) != nil else { return nil }
        var rgb: UInt32 = 0
        Scanner(string: _hex).scanHexInt32(&rgb)
        self.init(rgbWithoutValidation: Int32(rgb), alpha: alpha)
    }
}

Usage

let alpha: CGFloat = 1.0

// Hex
print(UIColor(rgb: 0x4F9BF5) ?? "nil")
print(UIColor(rgb: 0x4F9BF5, alpha: alpha) ?? "nil")
print(UIColor(rgb: 5217269) ?? "nil")
print(UIColor(rgb: -5217269) ?? "nil")                  // = nil
print(UIColor(rgb: 0xFFFFFF1) ?? "nil")                 // = nil

// String
print(UIColor(hex: "4F9BF5") ?? "nil")
print(UIColor(hex: "4F9BF5", alpha: alpha) ?? "nil")
print(UIColor(hex: "#4F9BF5") ?? "nil")
print(UIColor(hex: "#4F9BF5", alpha: alpha) ?? "nil")
print(UIColor(hex: "#4F9BF56") ?? "nil")                // = nil
print(UIColor(hex: "#blabla") ?? "nil")                 // = nil

// RGB
print(UIColor(r: 79, g: 155, b: 245))
print(UIColor(r: 79, g: 155, b: 245, alpha: alpha))
//print(UIColor(r: 792, g: 155, b: 245, alpha: alpha))  // Compiler will throw an error, r,g,b = [0...255]
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You don't need NSPredicate just to test regular expressions. string.range(of: pattern, options: .regularExpression) works too.
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Swift 5.0

You cannot use the #ffffff syntax directly in Swift. Here is the code I use for web-related projects. Supports alpha and three-digits.

Usage example (uppercase values are fine too):

    let hex = "#FADE2B"  // yellow
    let color = UIColor(fromHex: hex)

Supported string formats:

  • "fff" // RGB
  • "#fff" // #RGB
  • "ffff" // RGBA
  • "#ffff" // #RGBA
  • "ffffff" // RRGGBB
  • "#ffffff" // #RRGGBB
  • "ffffffff" // RRGGBBAA
  • "#ffffffff" // #RRGGBBAA

The digits represent Red, Green, Blue and Alpha (like transparency).

Code:


    extension UIColor {
        /// Initialises UIColor from a hexadecimal string. Color is clear if string is invalid.
        /// - Parameter fromHex: supported formats are "#RGB", "#RGBA", "#RRGGBB", "#RRGGBBAA", with or without the # character
        public convenience init(fromHex:String) {
            var r = 0, g = 0, b = 0, a = 255
            let offset = fromHex.hasPrefix("#") ? 1 : 0
            let ch = fromHex.map{$0}
            switch(ch.count - offset) {
            case 8:
                a = 16 * (ch[offset+6].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+7].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                fallthrough
            case 6:
                r = 16 * (ch[offset+0].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+1].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                g = 16 * (ch[offset+2].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+3].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                b = 16 * (ch[offset+4].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+5].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                break
            case 4:
                a = 16 * (ch[offset+3].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+3].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                fallthrough
            case 3:  // Three digit #0D3 is the same as six digit #00DD33
                r = 16 * (ch[offset+0].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+0].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                g = 16 * (ch[offset+1].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+1].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                b = 16 * (ch[offset+2].hexDigitValue ?? 0) + (ch[offset+2].hexDigitValue ?? 0)
                break
            default:
                a = 0
                break
            }
            self.init(red: CGFloat(r)/255, green: CGFloat(g)/255, blue: CGFloat(b)/255, alpha: CGFloat(a)/255)
            
        }
    }
    // Author: Andrew Kingdom

IMPORTANT This is written for iOS (UIKit). For MacOS (AppKit), replace UIColor with NSColor.

License: CC BY

I find this less messy for copy/pasting than the following

Alternatives:

You can remove the # and store it as a 32-bit unsigned integer literal, denoted by a 0x prefix thus: 0xffffff. You still need code to convert this to a colour though.

If you're wanting a non-programatic way to get the color: Open a colour selector dialog and switch to Colour Sliders > RGB Sliders and paste/enter the value into the 'Hex Color #' box. (Don't paste the # hash symbol.)

Caveat:

Hex colours originating from Android are usually in format AARRGGBB and will thus require reformatting. e.g. let newColor = color.suffix(6).prefix(4) + color.prefix(2)

Source:

https://gist.github.com/akingdom/75778998e0d435060d645c0be35f9c24

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Edit: Fixed bugs and clarified the explanation.
It's Swift 5 but you still use `NS´Color?
@Siamaster I've switched the code to focus on iOS. You missed the instruction 'For iOS, replace NSColor with UIColor' since MacOS/AppKit still uses NSColor in Swift5.
Ahaa! I had no idea :) Thanks for the clarification :D
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In the original question it isn't clear whether the hex value is a String or an Int. Given that in the original question the hex value starts with # rather than 0x, let's assume it is a String. All the answers posted here so far are using the ancient NSScanner/ Scanner object to parse the string. There's no need to do that as the Swift standard library can just initialise an Int using the init?<S: StringProtocol>(_ text: S, radix: Int) initialiser on FixedWidthInteger, passing a radix of 16. Assuming you know that the colors are always in RGB format and you're wanting a SwiftUI Color, you can parse like this:

func parseRGB(fromHex hexString: String) -> Color? {
    guard let hex = Int(hexString.trimmingPrefix("#"), radix: 16) else { return nil }
    return Color(
        red: Double((hex >> 16) & 0xff) / 255,
        green: Double((hex >> 8) & 0xff) / 255,
        blue: Double(hex & 0xff) / 255
    )
}
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It seems to work with Int32 though. Do you need 64 bits if the most you're shifting is 16?
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You can use it in swift 5

SWIFT 5

import UIKit

extension UIColor {
    static func hexStringToUIColor (hex:String) -> UIColor {
        var cString:String = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()

        if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
            cString.remove(at: cString.startIndex)
        }

        if ((cString.count) != 6) {
            return UIColor.gray
        }

        var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
        Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)

        return UIColor(
            red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
            green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
            blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
            alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
        )
    }
}
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A neat extension by Marco Eidinger for SwiftUI:

Hex to Color:

import SwiftUI

extension Color {
    init?(hex: String) {
        var hexSanitized = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
        hexSanitized = hexSanitized.replacingOccurrences(of: "#", with: "")

        var rgb: UInt64 = 0

        var r: CGFloat = 0.0
        var g: CGFloat = 0.0
        var b: CGFloat = 0.0
        var a: CGFloat = 1.0

        let length = hexSanitized.count

        guard Scanner(string: hexSanitized).scanHexInt64(&rgb) else { return nil }

        if length == 6 {
            r = CGFloat((rgb & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0
            g = CGFloat((rgb & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0
            b = CGFloat(rgb & 0x0000FF) / 255.0

        } else if length == 8 {
            r = CGFloat((rgb & 0xFF000000) >> 24) / 255.0
            g = CGFloat((rgb & 0x00FF0000) >> 16) / 255.0
            b = CGFloat((rgb & 0x0000FF00) >> 8) / 255.0
            a = CGFloat(rgb & 0x000000FF) / 255.0

        } else {
            return nil
        }

        self.init(red: r, green: g, blue: b, opacity: a)
    }
}

Color to hex:

import SwiftUI
import UIKit

extension Color {
    func toHex() -> String? {
        let uic = UIColor(self)
        guard let components = uic.cgColor.components, components.count >= 3 else {
            return nil
        }
        let r = Float(components[0])
        let g = Float(components[1])
        let b = Float(components[2])
        var a = Float(1.0)

        if components.count >= 4 {
            a = Float(components[3])
        }

        if a != Float(1.0) {
            return String(format: "%02lX%02lX%02lX%02lX", lroundf(r * 255), lroundf(g * 255), lroundf(b * 255), lroundf(a * 255))
        } else {
            return String(format: "%02lX%02lX%02lX", lroundf(r * 255), lroundf(g * 255), lroundf(b * 255))
        }
    }
}
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Swift 2.0:

In viewDidLoad()

 var viewColor:UIColor
    viewColor = UIColor()
    let colorInt:UInt
    colorInt = 0x000000
    viewColor = UIColorFromRGB(colorInt)
    self.View.backgroundColor=viewColor



func UIColorFromRGB(rgbValue: UInt) -> UIColor {
    return UIColor(
        red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
    )
}
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extension UIColor {
    public convenience init?(hex: String) {
        let r, g, b, a: CGFloat

        if hex.hasPrefix("#") {
            let start = hex.index(hex.startIndex, offsetBy: 1)
            let hexColor = String(hex[start...])

            if hexColor.count == 8 {
                let scanner = Scanner(string: hexColor)
                var hexNumber: UInt64 = 0

                if scanner.scanHexInt64(&hexNumber) {
                    r = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0xff000000) >> 24) / 255
                    g = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0x00ff0000) >> 16) / 255
                    b = CGFloat((hexNumber & 0x0000ff00) >> 8) / 255
                    a = CGFloat(hexNumber & 0x000000ff) / 255

                    self.init(red: r, green: g, blue: b, alpha: a)
                    return
                }
            }
        }

        return nil
    }
}

Usage:

let white = UIColor(hex: "#ffffff")
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Swift 5 

extension UIColor{

/// Converting hex string to UIColor
///
/// - Parameter hexString: input hex string
convenience init(hexString: String) {
    let hex = hexString.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.alphanumerics.inverted)
    var int = UInt64()
    Scanner(string: hex).scanHexInt64(&int)
    let a, r, g, b: UInt64
    switch hex.count {
    case 3:    
        (a, r, g, b) = (255, (int >> 8) * 17, (int >> 4 & 0xF) * 17, (int & 0xF) * 17)
    case 6: 
        (a, r, g, b) = (255, int >> 16, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
    case 8: 
        (a, r, g, b) = (int >> 24, int >> 16 & 0xFF, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
    default:
        (a, r, g, b) = (255, 0, 0, 0)
    }
    self.init(red: CGFloat(r) / 255, green: CGFloat(g) / 255, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255, alpha: CGFloat(a) / 255)
}
}

Call using UIColor(hexString: "your hex string")

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iOS 14, SwiftUI 2.0, swift 5.1, Xcode beta12

extension Color {
  static func hexColour(hexValue:UInt32)->Color
    {
      let red = Double((hexValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0
      let green = Double((hexValue & 0xFF00) >> 8) / 255.0
      let blue = Double(hexValue & 0xFF) / 255.0
      return Color(red:red, green:green, blue:blue)
    }
}

You call it with a hex number

let red = Color.hexColour(hexValue: 0xFF0000)
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Supporting 7 Hex color types

There are 7 hex color formats: ""#FF0000","0xFF0000", "FF0000", "F00", "red", 0x00FF00 , 16711935

NSColorParser.nsColor("#FF0000",1)//red nsColor
NSColorParser.nsColor("FF0",1)//red nsColor
NSColorParser.nsColor("0xFF0000",1)//red nsColor
NSColorParser.nsColor("#FF0000",1)//red nsColor
NSColorParser.nsColor("FF0000",1)//red nsColor
NSColorParser.nsColor(0xFF0000,1)//red nsColor
NSColorParser.nsColor(16711935,1)//red nsColor

CAUTION: This isn't a "one-file-solution", there are some dependencies, but hunting them down may be faster than researching this from scratch.

https://github.com/eonist/swift-utils/blob/2882002682c4d2a3dc7cb3045c45f66ed59d566d/geom/color/NSColorParser.swift

Permalink:
https://github.com/eonist/Element/wiki/Progress#supporting-7-hex-color-types

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Swift 2.0

The code below is tested on xcode 7.2

import UIKit
extension UIColor{

    public convenience init?(colorCodeInHex: String, alpha: Float = 1.0){

        var filterColorCode:String =  colorCodeInHex.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("#", withString: "")

        if  filterColorCode.characters.count != 6 {
            self.init(red: 0.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, alpha: CGFloat(alpha))
            return
        }

        filterColorCode = filterColorCode.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet()).uppercaseString

        var range = Range(start: filterColorCode.startIndex.advancedBy(0), end: filterColorCode.startIndex.advancedBy(2))
        let rString = filterColorCode.substringWithRange(range)

        range = Range(start: filterColorCode.startIndex.advancedBy(2), end: filterColorCode.startIndex.advancedBy(4))
        let gString = filterColorCode.substringWithRange(range)


        range = Range(start: filterColorCode.startIndex.advancedBy(4), end: filterColorCode.startIndex.advancedBy(6))
        let bString = filterColorCode.substringWithRange(range)

        var r:CUnsignedInt = 0, g:CUnsignedInt = 0, b:CUnsignedInt = 0;
        NSScanner(string: rString).scanHexInt(&r)
        NSScanner(string: gString).scanHexInt(&g)
        NSScanner(string: bString).scanHexInt(&b)


        self.init(red: CGFloat(r) / 255.0, green: CGFloat(g) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255.0, alpha: CGFloat(alpha))
        return
    }
}
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