Is there an easy way to set the text/fore color based on the current back or fill color? I thought maybe about getLuminance(), but wasn’t able to get this to work. One, can we get this property? Two, will this do me any good? I thought I could just look to see if it’s dark or light then use color map.
Any suggestions?
Might help if you stated what component you were using. 
Otherwise, consider using the style customizer to drive things like color.
Right, a custom template. I feed it custom colors that come from a look up table, cell binding to styles. Since the colors are unknown, and I really don’t want to have set colors for fore and back, I was wanting to make the fore color automatic based on whether the back color was light or dark.
Found the following, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3942878/how-to-decide-font-color-in-white-or-black-depending-on-background-color, it works well enough for what I need.
Have a custom property LightDark which is bound to Foreground Color and uses the simple color map.
if event.propertyName == "background":
color = event.source.background
r = color.getRed()
g = color.getGreen()
b = color.getBlue()
if (r*0.299 + g*0.587 + b*0.114) > 186:
event.source.parent.LightDark = 0 #Black
else:
event.source.parent.LightDark = 1 #White
My issue on getLuminance() is that it’s getLightness(), was looking at wrong docs, IA support pointed that out to me. But, didn’t really need it though.