Creating Random Colors

Just out of curiosity - I'm trying to make a string display random colors. My understanding is text.textcolor accepts a hex number in the format "RRGGBB". I"m doing the following, but I'm not sure that this is right. Can someone check and let me know?
Much appreciated.
LB
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You need to create a binary 24-bit number to give the color. Labview provides a VI (RGB to Color.vi) to create a color based on 3 8-bit numbers in the sub-palette Graphics & Sounds / Picture functions. See below
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