Quiet Abyss on Olympian Blue
#160435 on #1c4c8c
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
2.23:1
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 14.0
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 25.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#c0b4f3 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #1c4c8c, 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
Ratio 2.38:1, ΔE00 20.7.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.15:1, ΔE00 18.9.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.19:1, ΔE00 25.5.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.9 apart against 25.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Quiet Abyss ·Olympian Blue · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs