Black Box on Out of the Blue

#0f282f on #1199ee

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

4.99:1

Passes AA for body text

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

APCA

Lc 43.1

Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 42.7

different colours

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

Nothing to fix

This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #0f282f can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 5.35:1, ΔE00 45.7.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 4.80:1, ΔE00 41.9.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 4.05:1, ΔE00 34.5.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 34.5 apart against 42.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Black Box ·Out of the Blue · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs