How dark does a grey background have to be, before white text is easier to read against that background than black text?
Suppose you start off with a white background.
Clearly, black text is easier to see on a pure white background than white text on white.
Now, suppose you introduce a very small amount of black color into to the background.
The background color is a pale LIGHT grey. Black text is still easier to read on the light grey background than white text.
If you repeat this process, at what point does white text become easier to read than black text?
That is, how dark does a grey background have to be before white text in the foreground is easier to read than black text?
I was using Microsoft PowerPoint to make a slide-show presentation. I was annoyed that the default text color is white. I changed the text-box background color from blue to white. I ended-up with white text on top of a white background. The text was invisible! At the time of my writing, MS Power Point can only set text to explicit colors such as white or black. I think it would be cool if in future version of MS Power Point,e the default text color could be an implicit color instead of an explicit color. A function could read-in the background color, and output an appropriate color for the text. The text should be white if the background color is sufficiently black. The text should be black if the background color is sufficiently close to white.
I think that that Microsoft PowerPoint could be made easier for the end-user.
Accidentally putting white text on a white background is an annoying problem end users of the future need not suffer.
