diff --git a/src/cfgparse.l b/src/cfgparse.l
index 50fbc6ca..39e1d398 100644
--- a/src/cfgparse.l
+++ b/src/cfgparse.l
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ EOL     (\r?\n)
 <WANT_STRING>[^\n]+             { yy_pop_state(); yylval.string = sstrdup(yytext); return STR; }
 <OUTPUT_COND>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+     { yy_pop_state(); yylval.string = sstrdup(yytext); return OUTPUT; }
 ^[ \t]*#[^\n]*                  { return TOKCOMMENT; }
-<COLOR_COND>[0-9a-fA-F]+        { yy_pop_state(); yylval.string = sstrdup(yytext); return HEX; }
+<COLOR_COND>#[0-9a-fA-F]+       { yy_pop_state(); yylval.string = sstrdup(yytext+1); return HEXCOLOR; }
 <ASSIGN_TARGET_COND>[ \t]*→[ \t]*     { BEGIN(WANT_STRING); }
 <ASSIGN_TARGET_COND>[ \t]+      { BEGIN(WANT_STRING); }
 [0-9]+                          { yylval.number = atoi(yytext); return NUMBER; }
diff --git a/src/cfgparse.y b/src/cfgparse.y
index c9e1eb98..bc4928f6 100644
--- a/src/cfgparse.y
+++ b/src/cfgparse.y
@@ -590,7 +590,6 @@ void parse_file(const char *f) {
 %token  <string>        WORD                        "<word>"
 %token  <string>        STR                         "<string>"
 %token  <string>        STR_NG                      "<string (non-greedy)>"
-%token  <string>        HEX                         "<hex>"
 %token  <string>        HEXCOLOR                    "#<hex>"
 %token  <string>        OUTPUT                      "<RandR output>"
 %token                  TOKBINDCODE
@@ -1506,14 +1505,10 @@ color:
     ;
 
 colorpixel:
-    '#' HEX
+    HEXCOLOR
     {
-        char *hex;
-        if (asprintf(&hex, "#%s", $2) == -1)
-            die("asprintf()");
-        free($2);
-        $$ = get_colorpixel(hex);
-        free(hex);
+        $$ = get_colorpixel($1);
+        free($1);
     }
     ;