: Coming up with a few good, readable colors is not difficult. You just need to maintain yourself above a determined contrast ratio as Scott has mentioned in the comments. You main issue with

Coming up with a few good, readable colors is not difficult. You just need to maintain yourself above a determined contrast ratio as Scott has mentioned in the comments.

You main issue with this, however, will be finding 10 colors that look distinctively different from each other. You can automate the contrast detection, but if you want something that looks nice you will need to do this manually. I think a manual approach is better in this case also because you are dealing with text, and text is usually thin - so thin that you can't really see the color correctly, you see shades of it with different transparencies against the white background.

As others have mentioned, perhaps it's time to ask yourself if you really want to use color as a way of distinguishing objects. 3 to 5 is doable, 10 will get you a headache for sure.

If you want something that can aid in quickly recognizing 10 different elements, I suggest you use icons instead. Or, if you need to use color, maybe consider adding bullet points or some other chunky element that displays the color better.

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