Programmatically choose high-contrast colors

Question

This should be a simple question, but I haven\'t been able to find a way to make it work.

Essentially, I have a silly localhost page that I use in my webdevelopment.

Answer 1

Check out this PHP solution: Calculating Color Contrast with PHP by Andreas Gohr. It can be ported to any language of course.

He also has a very nice demonstration of his contrast analyzer where you can find some minimal contrast levels to work with.