# Quickly generate RGB codes — Tudor Andrei Dumitrascu

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# Quickly generate RGB codes

May 9, 2022 [#linux](/blog/tags/linux)[#cli](/blog/tags/cli)[#tools](/blog/tags/tools)

I needed to quickly generate a bunch of RGB hex codes. I also needed them to be available in the clipboard.

The best solution that I could find was to use [pastel](https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel).

The magic command is the following.

```
pastel random -n 1 | pastel format | xclip -sel clip
```

Now put on a keybind, with something like i3 and you have a handy code at the stroke of a few buttons.