chrishulbert · February 23, 2015 22:42 · Feb 23, 2015
diff --git a/gistfile1.swift b/gistfile1.swift
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+import UIKit
+
+extension UIColor {
+
+    /// Creates a UIColor from an 'rrggbb' hex string.
+    class func fromHex(hexColour: String) -> UIColor {
+        let str = hexColour.cStringUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
+        let x = strtol(str!, nil, 16)
+        let r = x >> 16
+        let g = (x >> 8) & 0xff
+        let b = x & 0xff
+        let red = CGFloat(r) / 255.0
+        let green = CGFloat(g) / 255.0
+        let blue = CGFloat(b) / 255.0
+        return UIColor(red: red, green: green, blue: blue, alpha: 1)
+    }
+
+}