Hex

Hex or HEX may refer to:

Magic

• Hex, a curse or supposed real and potentially supernaturally realized malicious wish
• Hex sign, a barn decoration originating in Pennsylvania Dutch regions of the United States
• Hex work, a Pennsylvania Dutch (German) folk magic system also known as pow-wow

Web colors

• Hex triplet, a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used in computing applications to represent colors

Engineering and technology

• Hex key, a tool also known as a hex wrench or Allen wrench, used to drive fasteners
• Hex key, a number sign (#) key on telephones (regional term used in Singapore and Malaysia)
• High-energy X-rays, sometimes abbreviated "HEX-rays"
• Hexadecimal, a base-16 number system often used in computer nomenclature
• Hexcentric, an item of climbing protection equipment
• Heat exchanger, a device for heat transfer
• Hypersonic Flight Experiment, a planned mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation
• Intel HEX, a computer file format
• Uranium hexafluoride, a compound used in nuclear fuel refinement

Businesses and services

• Hex'Air, an airline based in southern France
• Heathrow Express, a train service in London
• Helsinki Stock Exchange

Games and sport

• Hex, a hexagonal tile of a hex map, used in war and strategy board games
• Hex (board game), a mathematical strategy game played on a hexagonal grid or rhombus
• Hex (climbing), an item of rock climbing equipment used to arrest a fall
• Hex (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST
• Hex: Shards of Fate, an MMO trading card game by Cryptozoic Entertainment
• Hex – The Legend of the Towers, a Vekoma Madhouse ride at the Alton Towers Resort, England
• The Hexagonal (CONCACAF), final round of FIFA World Cup qualifiers for North America, Central America, and the Caribbean
• The Hex, a 2018 computer game by the creator of Pony Island

Places

• Hex River, a tributary of the Breede River in South Africa
• Hex River, a tributary of the Elands River in South Africa
• Hexham railway station, Northumberland, England

Arts and media

Books

• Hex (1998 novel), a dystopian novel for young adults by Rhiannon Lassiter
• Hex, a 2011 science fiction novel by Allen Steele
• HEX (2013 novel), a Dutch horror novel by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, published in English in 2016

Fictional characters

• Hex (Ben 10), a villain in the Ben 10 franchise
• Hex (Discworld), a computer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• Hex Schofield, a companion of the Seventh Doctor in a series of Doctor Who audio plays
• Hex, an illusionist and escapologist in the Marvel Comics series ClanDestine
• Hex, an undead dark elf necromancer in the Netflix animated series Skylanders Academy
• HEX, an evil organization in the novel InterWorld
• Jonah Hex, a DC Comics character
• The Hex Girls, a fictitious musical group in the Scooby-Doo franchise

Film and television

• HEX, in WandaVision is a nickname for the city of Westview
• Hex (1973 film), a 1973 film starring Keith Carradine, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, and Hillarie Thompson
• Hex, a 1980 Hong Kong film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
• Hex (2015 film), a 2015 film directed by Clarence Peters
• Hex, a 2018 film directed by Rudolf Buitendach
• Hex (TV series), a 2004–2005 supernatural/horror drama on British television
• Jonah Hex (film), a 2010 film based on a DC Comics character
• Mr. Hex, a 1946 Bowery Boys comedy film
• Stephanie Bendixsen (born 1985), presenter for Australian TV show Good Game, known by the gamertag Hex

Music

Musical artists

• Hex, an indie rock duo formed in 1988 by Steve Kilbey and Donnette Thayer
• Hex (VJ group), a British-based multimedia group active in the 1990s which later became Hexstatic
• Hex Hector (born 1965), American dance remixer

Songs and albums

• Hex (Hex album), 1989, by the indie rock duo Hex
• Hex (Bark Psychosis album), 1994
• Hex (Poison Girls album)
• Hex, a 2003 album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Bigelf
• Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method, a 2005 album by the band Earth
• "Hex" (song), by Rezz and 1788-L
• "Hex", a 2014 song co-written by Wax Motif and Tommy Trash

See also

• Hex game (disambiguation)
• Hexes (disambiguation)
• Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard, a 1994 video game
• "The Hexx", a song by the band Pavement
• All pages with titles containing Hex
• All pages with titles beginning with Hex