Calculating Color Contrast with PHP
A good designer will choose high contrast colors for backgrounds and texts without hesitation. But sometimes no human is involved in choosing the colors. For example when colors are assigned in a (pseudo) random manner.
After some Googling I found a page explaining different color contrast algorithms. I used the data from that page and implemented 3 color check functions in PHP.
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