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Automatically Calculating Foreground Color using SASS

I ran into the problem, as I'm sure many others have, where I wanted to dynamically assign background colors to my components, but also needed to adjust the foreground color to be readable and visually appealing. It's easy for something to fall through the cracks when changing colors, and then we end up with unreadable text.

So to try and avoid this, I put together a SASS function that selects a color for text based on the background color you give it. This also performs checks to make sure the contrast meets a given Accessibility spec (as per W3C rules). So far I've had pretty good results with it. Please feel free to tinker and use this in your own projects. It's far from perfect, but it has

See the Pen Calculate Foreground Color by Thomas Pietrosanti (@Rykus0) on CodePen.

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