Calculate the average colour of an area in an image

Question

The goal is to lay a caption on top of an image and set the text colour to one that will contrast with the background it is positioned on top of. To that end, I wish to calculat

Answer 1

Expanding on Bonzo’s answer. This is an example command

convert Y82IirS.jpg -resize 1x1 txt:

Result

# ImageMagick pixel enumeration: 1,1,255,srgb
0,0: (220,176, 44)  #DCB02C  srgb(220,176,44)

Average colour of an image