HEX to RGB Converter

CSS and design tools both support a three-character shorthand hex notation — `#abc` — as a compact way to write colors where each channel happens to use a repeated digit, and it expands by doubling each character rather than padding with zeros: `#abc` becomes `#aabbcc`, not `#0a0b0c`. This distinction matters because the two possible expansions produce genuinely different colors, and getting it backwards when converting by hand is an easy, common mistake — correctly doubling each digit rather than zero-padding is exactly what a proper conversion needs to get right.

RGB values are conventionally written as three numbers from 0 to 255 for red, green and blue respectively, but the exact notation varies by where they are being pasted — CSS accepts `rgb(171, 187, 204)` with commas, some design and illustration tools expect the same three numbers space-separated with no commas at all, and a few contexts express each channel as a 0–1 fraction rather than a 0–255 integer. Seeing the value broken out here removes the need to manually convert between whichever specific notation a target tool or codebase happens to expect.

A hex code copied from a design tool's eyedropper, a brand style guide, or a screenshot color picker is frequently the only value available, with no accompanying RGB breakdown — pasting it here to see the RGB, HSL and CMYK equivalents together is faster than looking each conversion up individually or running the arithmetic by hand.