Choosing suitable background / foreground colour using PHP

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I am looking to find a why to calculate a suitable background colour and a colour for the text that would go over the top, obviously I need to take into account readability and accessibility.

I would need to pick the two colours from the array, the colours are stored in their hex representations.

#CC9966
#996633
#FFCC99
#CCCC99
#000000
#333333
#666633
#663333
#CC9933
#FFCCCC

I can use a PHP library like GD / imageMagick?

Any suggestions (Please note I am using PHP)

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