Memorial Black on Corrosive Green

#091101 on #54d905

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

10.35:1

Passes AA for body text

AAA too. Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc 68.9

Clears Lc 60 — headlines and other larger text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 70.0

different colours

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

Nothing to fix

This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #091101 can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 11.48:1, ΔE00 74.6.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 9.74:1, ΔE00 66.7.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 8.97:1, ΔE00 60.5.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 60.5 apart against 70.0 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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