Hex Clock
The time is a color
How to read it
Point at a step, or tap it, to light up that part of the clock.
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Read the time as #HHMMSS.
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That six-digit code is a valid hex color.
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The background is painted with that exact color.
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Hours stop at 23 and minutes and seconds at 59, so the color never gets brighter than #235959: always dark tones.
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The story
Born on the web in the early 2010s: The Colour Clock (2011) turned the time into a color, and the Hex Clock took it literally, reading HH:MM:SS as a hex color code — so every moment of the day has its own hue.
- Year
- 2011
- Place
- The web
- Creator
- Jack Hughes & Jacopo Colò
Fun fact
Midnight is pure black (#000000) — and no time of day can ever reach pure white.
