Unity3D Hex color helper

Colors.cs

using UnityEngine;

public static class Colors
{

    /// <summary>
    /// Return a UnityEngine.Color from a 32b hex uint
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="hex">ex: 00FF00FF </param>
    /// <returns>ex Color.green (0f,1f,0f,1f)</returns>
    public static Color HexToColor(uint hex)
    {
        uint red = ExtractRed(hex);
        uint green = ExtractGreen(hex);
        uint blue = ExtractBlue(hex);
        uint alpha = ExtractAlpha(hex);

        return new Color(HexToColorFloat(red), HexToColorFloat(green), HexToColorFloat(blue), HexToColorFloat(alpha));
    }

    /// <param name="color">Hex code for a single 8bit color (0xFF == 1.0f)</param>
    /// <returns>Float value from 0 ->1 (0->255)</returns>
    public static float HexToColorFloat(uint color)
    {
        return (int) color / 255f;
    }
    public static uint ExtractRed(uint color)
    {
        return (( color >> 24 ) & 0xFF);
    }
    public static uint ExtractGreen(uint color)
    {
        return (( color >> 16 ) & 0xFF);
    }
    public static uint ExtractBlue(uint color)
    {
        return (( color >> 8 ) & 0xFF);
    }
    public static uint ExtractAlpha(uint color)
    {
        return ( color & 0xFF );
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Convert seperate uint values to a hex color value
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="red"></param>
    /// <param name="green"></param>
    /// <param name="blue"></param>
    /// <param name="alpha"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static uint CombineRGBA(uint red, uint green, uint blue, uint alpha) 
    {
        return (red << 24) | ( green << 16 ) | ( blue << 8 ) | alpha;
    }
}