Automatically change text color to assure readability

Question

Users can set the background-color of a button through a textbox that accept RGB hexadecimal notation: ff00ff, ccaa22, etc. So I need to set the te

Answer 1

I had the same issue once, and gathered information all over the internet also using Salman A answer, I came up with this function, it supports hex, rgb and rgba

var invertColor = function (color) {
            var hex   = '#';
            if(color.indexOf(hex) > -1){
                color = color.substring(1);           
                color = parseInt(color, 16);         
                color = 0xFFFFFF ^ color;            
                color = color.toString(16);           
                color = ("000000" + color).slice(-6); 
                color = "#" + color; 
            }else{
                color = Array.prototype.join.call(arguments).match(/(-?[0-9\.]+)/g);
                for (var i = 0; i < color.length; i++) {
                    color[i] = (i === 3 ? 1 : 255) - color[i];
                }
                if(color.length === 4){
                    color = "rgba("+color[0]+","+color[1]+","+color[2]+","+color[3]+")";
                }else{
                    color = "rgb("+color[0]+","+color[1]+","+color[2]+")";
                }
            }         
            return color;
        }

but I don't think this is what you need, I found something more interesting, the below function will return white or black, it will decide witch one is more readable on the given color.

var getContrastYIQ = function (color){
            var hex   = '#';
            var r,g,b;
            if(color.indexOf(hex) > -1){
                r = parseInt(color.substr(0,2),16);
                g = parseInt(color.substr(2,2),16);
                b = parseInt(color.substr(4,2),16);
            }else{
                color = color.match(/\d+/g);
                r = color[0];
                g = color[1];
                b = color[2];
            }

            var yiq = ((r*299)+(g*587)+(b*114))/1000;
            return (yiq >= 128) ? 'black' : 'white';
        }

I don't take credit for any of this, I just got inspired and modified to my needs.

Sources: YIQ function explained