Text Color — text_color • mamisc

Determine text color based on background color

text_color(
  background,
  threshold = 186,
  w3c = FALSE,
  dark = "black",
  light = "white"
)

Source

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3942878/how-to-decide-font-color-in-white-or-black-depending-on-background-color

Arguments

background: A vector of background colors; supports R color names and hexadecimal codes
threshold: Intensity threshold for light/dark cutoff; intensities greater than theshold yield dark, others yield light
w3c: Use W3C formula for calculating background text color; ignores threshold
dark: Color for dark text
light: Color for light text

Value

A named vector of either dark or light, depending on background; names of vector are background

See also

Other color_theory: blend_colors(), col2hex(), contrast-theory

Examples

text_color(background = c('black', 'white', '#E76BF3'))
#>   black   white #E76BF3 
#> "white" "black" "white"