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When I’m making sure that text is legible I usually just eyeball it, but apparently there are set standards from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) concerning how much contrast you need between your text and background colors. I came across this nifty little tool that will allow you to check if your colors are compliant. You can move around the sliders or copy/paste your hex colors and it’ll tell you if you have enough contrast. It’s not much to look at, but it gets the job done.

http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html