一个Android版本，捕捉alpha以及。

(感谢@thomas-vos)

/**
 * Returns a colour best suited to contrast with the input colour.
 *
 * @param colour
 * @return
 */
@ColorInt
public static int contrastingColour(@ColorInt int colour) {
    // XXX https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1855884/determine-font-color-based-on-background-color

    // Counting the perceptive luminance - human eye favors green color...
    double a = 1 - (0.299 * Color.red(colour) + 0.587 * Color.green(colour) + 0.114 * Color.blue(colour)) / 255;
    int alpha = Color.alpha(colour);

    int d = 0; // bright colours - black font;
    if (a >= 0.5) {
        d = 255; // dark colours - white font
    }

    return Color.argb(alpha, d, d, d);
}

请注意，在谷歌闭包库中有一个算法，该算法引用了w3c推荐:http://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast。但是，在这个API中，您提供了一个建议颜色列表作为起点。

/**
 * Find the "best" (highest-contrast) of the suggested colors for the prime
 * color. Uses W3C formula for judging readability and visual accessibility:
 * http://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast
 * @param {goog.color.Rgb} prime Color represented as a rgb array.
 * @param {Array<goog.color.Rgb>} suggestions Array of colors,
 *     each representing a rgb array.
 * @return {!goog.color.Rgb} Highest-contrast color represented by an array.
 */
goog.color.highContrast = function(prime, suggestions) {
  var suggestionsWithDiff = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < suggestions.length; i++) {
    suggestionsWithDiff.push({
      color: suggestions[i],
      diff: goog.color.yiqBrightnessDiff_(suggestions[i], prime) +
          goog.color.colorDiff_(suggestions[i], prime)
    });
  }
  suggestionsWithDiff.sort(function(a, b) { return b.diff - a.diff; });
  return suggestionsWithDiff[0].color;
};


/**
 * Calculate brightness of a color according to YIQ formula (brightness is Y).
 * More info on YIQ here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIQ. Helper method for
 * goog.color.highContrast()
 * @param {goog.color.Rgb} rgb Color represented by a rgb array.
 * @return {number} brightness (Y).
 * @private
 */
goog.color.yiqBrightness_ = function(rgb) {
  return Math.round((rgb[0] * 299 + rgb[1] * 587 + rgb[2] * 114) / 1000);
};


/**
 * Calculate difference in brightness of two colors. Helper method for
 * goog.color.highContrast()
 * @param {goog.color.Rgb} rgb1 Color represented by a rgb array.
 * @param {goog.color.Rgb} rgb2 Color represented by a rgb array.
 * @return {number} Brightness difference.
 * @private
 */
goog.color.yiqBrightnessDiff_ = function(rgb1, rgb2) {
  return Math.abs(
      goog.color.yiqBrightness_(rgb1) - goog.color.yiqBrightness_(rgb2));
};


/**
 * Calculate color difference between two colors. Helper method for
 * goog.color.highContrast()
 * @param {goog.color.Rgb} rgb1 Color represented by a rgb array.
 * @param {goog.color.Rgb} rgb2 Color represented by a rgb array.
 * @return {number} Color difference.
 * @private
 */
goog.color.colorDiff_ = function(rgb1, rgb2) {
  return Math.abs(rgb1[0] - rgb2[0]) + Math.abs(rgb1[1] - rgb2[1]) +
      Math.abs(rgb1[2] - rgb2[2]);
};

Javascript [ES2015]

const hexToLuma = (colour) => {
    const hex   = colour.replace(/#/, '');
    const r     = parseInt(hex.substr(0, 2), 16);
    const g     = parseInt(hex.substr(2, 2), 16);
    const b     = parseInt(hex.substr(4, 2), 16);

    return [
        0.299 * r,
        0.587 * g,
        0.114 * b
    ].reduce((a, b) => a + b) / 255;
};

谢谢你写这篇文章。

对于可能感兴趣的人，这里有一个Delphi中的函数示例:

function GetContrastColor(ABGColor: TColor): TColor;
var
  ADouble: Double;
  R, G, B: Byte;
begin
  if ABGColor <= 0 then
  begin
    Result := clWhite;
    Exit; // *** EXIT RIGHT HERE ***
  end;

  if ABGColor = clWhite then
  begin
    Result := clBlack;
    Exit; // *** EXIT RIGHT HERE ***
  end;

  // Get RGB from Color
  R := GetRValue(ABGColor);
  G := GetGValue(ABGColor);
  B := GetBValue(ABGColor);

  // Counting the perceptive luminance - human eye favors green color...
  ADouble := 1 - (0.299 * R + 0.587 * G + 0.114 * B) / 255;

  if (ADouble < 0.5) then
    Result := clBlack  // bright colors - black font
  else
    Result := clWhite;  // dark colors - white font
end;

Swift 4示例:

extension UIColor {

    var isLight: Bool {
        let components = cgColor.components

        let firstComponent = ((components?[0]) ?? 0) * 299
        let secondComponent = ((components?[1]) ?? 0) * 587
        let thirdComponent = ((components?[2]) ?? 0) * 114
        let brightness = (firstComponent + secondComponent + thirdComponent) / 1000

        return !(brightness < 0.6)
    }

}

更新-发现0.6是一个更好的查询测试平台

基于R版本的@Gacek的答案来获得亮度(你可以很容易地应用你自己的阈值)

# vectorized
luminance = function(col) c(c(.299, .587, .114) %*% col2rgb(col)/255)

用法:

luminance(c('black', 'white', '#236FAB', 'darkred', '#01F11F'))
# [1] 0.0000000 1.0000000 0.3730039 0.1629843 0.5698039