Memorial Black on God of Rain

#091101 on #4466cc

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

3.68:1

Large text only

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

APCA

Lc 28.0

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

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 44.5

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#e5f2d7 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #4466cc, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.81:1, ΔE00 45.8.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 3.61:1, ΔE00 44.8.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.65:1, ΔE00 37.6.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 37.6 apart against 44.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Memorial Black ·God of Rain · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs