Random Hex Color 🦬

Plain random hex is easy - #F3A2B7 and #3B2A1E are equally likely, which means most palettes look like noise. Random Hex Color is the version with an opinion: it generates colors within a chosen mood, so you can ask for "neon" and get saturated electric hues, or "very dark grays" and get... well, very dark grays. For palette-driven prompt work it's a genuinely nicer primitive.

It's part of Sokes Nodes 🦬, the first step in the pack's color pipeline (Random Hex Color → Hex Color Swatch → Hex to Color Name → prompt).

How it works

Three inputs:

• count - 1 to 10 colors per output.
• color_type - the mood. There are 13 options: random (true random), normal (picks from a curated list of recognizable colors), neon, pale, muted, dark colors, warm colors, cool colors, tan colors, light grays, dark grays, very dark grays, and all grays.
• seed - reproducibility, the usual deal.

Under the hood each mood is a range in HSV space. Neon is high saturation and value, pale is low saturation and high value, muted is mid saturation and low-to-mid value, warm is a hue band around reds/oranges/yellows, tan is a narrow low-saturation band around 36–50°. So the colors aren't random and then filtered - they're sampled from a region of color space that already looks like what you asked for.

Output is a single STRING: hex_color_string, the requested count of hex codes comma-joined and uppercased, like #FF00FF, #552288, #993322.

Install

Standard Sokes Nodes 🦬 install - ComfyUI Manager → "ComfyUI Sokes Nodes" → Install, restart:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/m-sokes/ComfyUI-Sokes-Nodes.git
pip install -r requirements.txt

The workflow it unlocks

Pair it with Hex to Color Name and you can generate a whole color concept in one run: mood-based palette → human names → prompt text like "a muted teal and dusty rose composition." That's a neat little loop for brand exploration, background variation, or just forcing yourself out of a color rut.

One small gotcha: the output comes as a single comma-joined string, not a list - so if a downstream node expects individual colors, you'll want to split it. And "random" is genuinely random, so expect the occasional clashing combo; that's what neon and muted are for when you want intent. Seed it for reproducibility, then let the moods do the taste-testing for you.