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

Following method is find color is light or dark in Swift language based on white in color.

func isLightColor(color: UIColor) -> Bool 
{
   var white: CGFloat = 0.0
   color.getWhite(&white, alpha: nil)

   var isLight = false

   if white >= 0.5
   {
       isLight = true
       NSLog("color is light: %f", white)
   }
   else
   {
      NSLog("Color is dark: %f", white)
   }

   return isLight
}

Following method is find color is light or dark in Swift using color components.

func isLightColor(color: UIColor) -> Bool 
{
     var isLight = false

     var componentColors = CGColorGetComponents(color.CGColor)

     var colorBrightness: CGFloat = ((componentColors[0] * 299) + (componentColors[1] * 587) + (componentColors[2] * 114)) / 1000;
     if (colorBrightness >= 0.5)
     {
        isLight = true
        NSLog("my color is light")
     }
     else
     {
        NSLog("my color is dark")
     }  
     return isLight
}