Quiet Abyss on Black Sabbath
#160435 on #220022
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
1.01:1
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 0.0
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Too close to call.
Colour difference
ΔE00 9.2
clearly different
Between 5 and 10 — nobody would call these the same colour.
What the text colour has to become
#7e72ad is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #220022, 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 1.03:1, ΔE00 6.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.00:1, ΔE00 8.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.04:1, ΔE00 20.5.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 6.2 apart against 9.2 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.
Both colours have pages of their own: Quiet Abyss ·Black Sabbath · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs