Need color value visible over map - colors

I need to write some text over google maps image. I try lot off combinations of colors but it is ugly. Can anybody give me a color ( hex value) which visible on that map and looks good ( I have no talent for design at all ) ?

Do what Google itself does: write it in black and outline with white. Look closely at words in the image: you'll see thin white outline around all words.

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Is there any way to draw large characters using ncursesw?

I want to create a main page for a program I'm trying to write and basically, I want to print the title at the center with a large font and menu and the rest after that. What I'm looking for is any character set in ncursesw or just anything which will help me draw large characters for title more precisely
For this (in ncurses), I tried A_REVERSE attribute and printed the respective places white, something like this
Large text
But other letters like z, g and t are hard to draw and they don't look good either.

How do I tint an svg in processing and preserve brightness?

I've been trying to figure this out for 2 days now, so I hope somebody can help.
I need to load in svg files that have multiple values of gray within them and tint them with colors. So for example, say the svg file is an image of a rock and has 4 values of gray. I need to be able to display the rock as red and keep the differences between values in the different child shapes. In other words, I would like it to work just like PImage.tint().
I see there are tint() and setTint() methods to PShape but I can't seem to get them to work. I also though about recursing through the child shapes and reading each color individually and recoloring appropriately, but I couldn't even figure out how to read the color out in a way I understand.
Help, anyone?
If you have it as an <img> you can use the CSS filter property with hue-rotate https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter-function/hue-rotate
Or you add the svg directly to the html and add classes to your elements. Then you could change the colors in your script.
If this is a flat colour then you could use the alpha value in RGB colour value. See 'color transparency' in the following link: https://processing.org/tutorials/color/
The fill value is fill(red, green, blue, transparency)
I hope this helps. If you want to share code and have a reason for using PImage I'd be happy to have a look.

Creating an image whith GIMP hiding another image unless we add a color filter in real life

The idea is like the inverse of Ishihara test (http://www.colour-blindness.com/colour-blindness-tests/ishihara-colour-test-plates/).
I want to create with GIMP an image that showing something and then if I add a color layer, for exemple green glasses, then I see something new appearing.
I've searching far in Google and so but didn't found anything. Do you know how would I make this?
The Ishihara tests use the principle of combining things color blind persons cannot differentiate.
Coloured glass filters will only remove other colours from what you see. They don't add something. Therefor it is not possible to create a digital image that contains no information unless seen through a colour filter.
The only thing you can do is overlap your "hidden" information with high contrast colour noise.
Like here:
Using the glasses / filter only improves the visibility. The information is not added. It was always there.

Colour Name to RGB/Hex/HSL/HSV etc

I have come across this great function/command. Colour to RGB, you can do this:
col2rgb("peachpuff")
//returns hex
It will return one hex value. I want to extend this using Perl, Python or PHP but I want to be able to pass in, for example, "yellow" and the function returns all types of yellows - their hex/rgb/?/etc value.
I already have a quick solution implemented, which involves mapping colour names to hex values but now I want to get more precise and use some formulas etc to determine what's what.
However, as usual, I don't have a clue on how to do this! So I appreciate any implementation advice on how to do this.
Thanks all
The canonical CSS color names originated in X11 and the intersection of the sets - along with their RGB values can be - found at Wikipedia.
A more easily parsed list can be found in various rgb.txt files scattered over the web, but these are likely the X11 set not the CSS set.
added: Given an RGB value you can compute nearby colors by HSL conversion. Color palettes - sets of colors that go well together - are an art not a science, Google 'em.
Why don't you use the ccs Color names.
W3c webstandard --> CSS3/SVG Farben

Find most readable colour of text that is drawn on a coloured surface

I'm not sure how to ask this but here goes.
I draw a filled coloured rectangle on screen. The colour is in form of R,G,B
I then want to draw text on top of the rectangle, however the colour of the text has to be such that it provides the best contrast, meaning it's readable.
Example:
If I draw a black rectangle, the obvious colour for text would be white.
What I tried right now is this. I pass this function the colour of the rectangle and it returns an inverted colour that I then use for my text.
It works, but it's not the best way.
Any suggestions?
// eg. usage: Color textColor = GetInverseLuminance(rectColor);
private Color GetInverseLuminance(Color color)
{
int greyscale = (int)(255 - ((color.R * 0.30f) + (color.G * 0.59f) + (color.B * 0.11f)));
return Color.FromArgb(greyscale, greyscale, greyscale);
}
One simple approach that is guaranteed to give a significantly different color is to toggle the top bit of each component of the RGB triple.
Color inverse(Color c)
{
return new Color(c.R ^ 0x80, c.G ^ 0x80, c.B ^ 0x80);
}
If the original color was #1AF283, the "inverse" will be #9A7203.
The contrast will be significant. I make no guarantees about the aesthetics.
Update, 2009/4/3: I experimented with this and other schemes. Results at my blog.
The most readable color is going to be either white or black. The most 'soothing' color will be something that is not white nor black, it will be a color that lightly contrasts your background color. There is no way to programmatically do this because it is subjective. You will not find the most readable color for everyone because everyone sees things differently.
Some tips about color, particularly concerning foreground and background juxtaposition, such as with text.
The human eye is essentially a simple lens, and therefore can only effectively focus on one color at a time. The lenses used in most modern cameras work around this problem by using multiple lenses of different refractive indexes (chromatic lenses) so that all colors are in focus at one time, but the human eye is not that advanced.
For that reason, your users should only have to focus on one color at a time to read the text. This means that either the foreground is in color, or the background, but never both. This leads to a condition typically called vibration, in which the eye rapidly shifts focus between foreground and background colors, trying to resolve the shape, but it never resolves, the shape is never in focus, and it leads to eyestrain.
Your function won't work if you supply it with RGB(127,127,127), because it will return the exact same colour. (modifying your function to return either black or white would slightly improve things)
The best way to always have things readable is to have white text with black around it, or the other way around.
It's oftenly achieved by first drawing black text at (x-1,y-1),(x+1,y-1),(x+1,y-1),(x+1,x+1), and then white text at (x,y).
Alternatively, you could first draw a semi-transparent black block, and then non-transparent white text over it. That ensures that there will always be a certain amount of contrast between your background and your text.
why grey? either black or white would be best. white on dark colors, black on light colors. just see if luminance is above a threshold and pick one or the other
(you don't need the .net, c# or asp.net tags, by the way)
You need to study some color theory. A program called "Color Wheel Pro" is fun to play around with and will give you the general idea.
Essentially, you're looking for complimentary colors for a given color.
That said, I think you will find that while color theory helps, you still need a human eye to fine tune.

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