Check if UIColor is dark or bright?

Question

I need to determine whether a selected UIColor (picked by the user) is dark or bright, so I can change the color of a line of text that sits on top of that color, for better

Answer 1

For me using only CGColorGetComponents didn't worked, I get 2 components for UIColors like white. So I have to check the color spaceModel first. This is what I came up with that ended up being the swift version of @mattsven's answer.

Color space taken from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16981916/4905076

extension UIColor {
    func isLight() -> Bool {
        if let colorSpace = self.cgColor.colorSpace {
            if colorSpace.model == .rgb {
                guard let components = cgColor.components, components.count > 2 else {return false}

                let brightness = ((components[0] * 299) + (components[1] * 587) + (components[2] * 114)) / 1000

                return (brightness > 0.5)
            }
            else {
                var white : CGFloat = 0.0

                self.getWhite(&white, alpha: nil)

                return white >= 0.5
            }
        }

        return false
    }