Upon reading a SO thread about checking whether a color is bright, I found this piece of code by @josh-fuggle:
extension UIColor {
// Check if the color is light or dark, as defined by the injected lightness threshold.
// Some people report that 0.7 is best. I suggest to find out for yourself.
// A nil value is returned if the lightness couldn't be determined.
func isLight(threshold: Float = 0.5) -> Bool? {
let originalCGColor = self.cgColor
// Now we need to convert it to the RGB colorspace. UIColor.white / UIColor.black are greyscale and not RGB.
// If you don't do this then you will crash when accessing components index 2 below when evaluating greyscale colors.
let RGBCGColor = originalCGColor.converted(to: CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(), intent: .defaultIntent, options: nil)
guard let components = RGBCGColor?.components else {
return nil
}
guard components.count >= 3 else {
return nil
}
let brightness = Float(((components[0] * 299) + (components[1] * 587) + (components[2] * 114)) / 1000)
return (brightness > threshold)
}
}
In the code, the guard
statements ensure that the converted color is not nil
, and has three or more components.
So my question is, is there any color that makes the whole isLight
function return nil
?