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

- (BOOL)isColorLight:(UIColor*)color
{
    CGFloat white = 0;
    [color getWhite:&white alpha:nil];
    return (white >= .85);
}

Added Swift 5 version:

var white: CGFloat = 0.0
color.getWhite(&white, alpha: nil)
return white >= .85 // Don't use white background