tell the difference between bright and dark hexcolors?

[wakeNbake]

Hello world. So im trying to figure out how to tell the difference from ligth and dark hexcolors between two hexcodes?

I really having a hard time explaining this.

Is it possible and what is the technique ?.

if its not possible id like any similar methods to toy around with aswell

Thanks in advance WakeNbake

[Melba23]

wakeNbake,

You will need to look at the value of each of the 3 individual RGB elements and do some calculations to get a mean value - the higher the value the "lighter" the overall colour.

In technical terms you need to translate the RGB values into HSL (Hue, Saturation, Luminance) to get a valid result. There are several websites that give various formulae to do this - this one seems pretty good - but a really simple calculation that I have found pretty reliable is:

Luminance = (Red_Value * 0.3) + (Green_Value * 0.59) + (Blue_Value * 0.11)

So all you need to do is to plug in the return values from _ColorGetRed, _ColorGetGreen and _ColorGetBlue into that formula and you have your Luminance result on a scale of 0 to 255.

I hope this helps.

M23

[wakeNbake]

Thats it!!. Thank you !!

WakeNBake