I found this nice little function to take a color and give you its inverse color. It is pretty useful to display a color on a background that is opposite so you can ensure it will display correctly without having to know what the color is.
<?php // color_inverse function by Jonas John function color_inverse($color){ $color = str_replace('#', '', $color); if (strlen($color) != 6){ return '000000'; } $rgb = ''; for ($x=0;$x<3;$x++){ $c = 255 - hexdec(substr($color,(2*$x),2)); $c = ($c < 0) ? 0 : dechex($c); $rgb .= (strlen($c) < 2) ? '0'.$c : $c; } return '#'.$rgb; }