is-dark-color

Detects if a hex color is dark or light. It is based on the w3 documentation for color luminance: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#relativeluminancedef.

Useful when trying to make the text color visible on certain background colors. This is why I needed this:

Installation

npm i -S is-dark-color

Usage

es6 snippet

import isDarkColor from 'is-dark-color'
 
// obvious
const whiteIsDark = isDarkColor('#ffffff') // false
const blackIsDark = isDarkColor('#000000') // true
 
const someColor = '#ff9900' // some sort of orange
console.log(isDarkColor(someColor)) // try it to find out

Optionally, you can override the return value for certain colors:

import isDarkColor from 'is-dark-color'
 
const options = {
  override: {
    '#319FB5': true,
    '#383939': false,
  }
}
 
isDarkColor('#319FB5') // false
isDarkColor('#319FB5', options) // true

Credits

Inspired from

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/3943023/491075
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/5624139/491075
• https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#relativeluminancedef

LICENCE

MIT