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

For best contrast use this code

function lumdiff($R1,$G1,$B1,$R2,$G2,$B2){

    $L1 = 0.2126 * pow($R1/255, 2.2) +
          0.7152 * pow($G1/255, 2.2) +
          0.0722 * pow($B1/255, 2.2);

    $L2 = 0.2126 * pow($R2/255, 2.2) +
          0.7152 * pow($G2/255, 2.2) +
          0.0722 * pow($B2/255, 2.2);

    if($L1 > $L2){
        return ($L1+0.05) / ($L2+0.05);
    }else{
        return ($L2+0.05) / ($L1+0.05);
    }
}

function get_the_contrast($c1, $c2) {
    return (lumdiff(hexdec(substr($c1,0,2)),
        hexdec(substr($c1,2,2)),hexdec(substr($c1,4,2)),
        hexdec(substr($c2,0,2)),hexdec(substr($c2,2,2)),
        hexdec(substr($c2,4,2))));
}

The method above ( AVG(red,green,blue) > 128 ) is not realy good.