Background texture plays a big role as well.

What color text to use on green background. If you use color to convey meaning there must also be another way that meaning is conveyed so that people who are color blind can still access the information. Similarly if your brand colors are black and white this means great contrast but if you have a site with lengthy amounts of text a black background with white text is going to make reading very an eye-straining experience despite the inherent strength of contrast between black and white. Yellow amber text on a deep blue background has excellent readability as does amber or green on black.

Testing a neutral color palette as text on a white background from previous article. The left color picker controls the background. This is why old dumbterms vt100 vt52 etc went for these colors.

Red text is a good choice. You want achieve attention with bright colors but using several together will instead be too glaring to the eye. Black text is the best choice.

Blue text is a good choice. Shades of Gray Yes Really 373D3F or Raven is my lightest gray within a AAA accessibility rating. Colour Contrast Check snookca.

If luminance 05 d 0. A preview of the text and background color combination is given. Counting the perceptive luminance - human eye favors green color.

There are cases when instead of using a solid color it is better to rely on nice texture and neutral background. Double luminance 0299 colorR 0587 colorG 0114 colorB255. Too many bright colors.