Abyssal Waters on Super Pink

#005765 on #ce6ba6

Body text at this size

And the smaller size most interfaces actually use for paragraphs — the size that decides whether a pair is usable.

Caption text, which almost nothing passes.

WCAG 2.1

2.46:1

Fails AA

Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc 25.5

Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 48.9

different colours

Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.

What the text colour has to become

#002b33 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ce6ba6, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.91:1, ΔE00 18.0.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.79:1, ΔE00 28.1.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.21:1, ΔE00 74.6.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.0 apart against 48.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Abyssal Waters ·Super Pink · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs