Generating a readable colour from RGB?

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Published on 2010-06-02T19:22:19Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 19:24 UTC
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Hi, I'm putting in a function which will allow a user to input a color (eg: purple) and it will change the look of their profile to be purple. It's interpreted from text into a 'Color' class which stores them inside itself as RGB numbers (int for red, one for green and other for blue). What i don't know how to do is logically turn these three numbers into another 3 which will make a readable colour.

Can anyone help me on how to do this?

Joe

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