How to find out light, medium and dark color?

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I have a color in hex format ex (c3d8f7 (light blue), 303f5a (dark blue)). How to find out if that color is light or dark?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '12 at 14:24

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Very rough algorithm: Convert the color to HSV and check e.g. if V is above (light) 75% or below (dark) 25%.

answered Jan 20 '12 at 14:24

Ocaso Protal

Are you know a function in javascript to convert hex to hsv? – StoneHeart Jan 20 '12 at 14:45
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This link should help: http://matthaynes.net/blog/2008/08/07/javascript-colour-functions/ – Ocaso Protal Jan 20 '12 at 14:51
@sam360 See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/359612/how-to-change-rgb-color-to-hsv (and maybe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/74148/how-to-convert-numbers-between-hexadecimal-and-decimal-in-c) – Ocaso Protal Aug 21 '14 at 12:56

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