Quiet Abyss on Wild Thing
#160435 on #654243
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
2.19:1
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 13.2
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 27.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#beb2f1 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #654243, 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 2.07:1, ΔE00 28.5.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.25:1, ΔE00 33.6.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.44:1, ΔE00 40.9.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 28.5 apart against 27.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Quiet Abyss ·Wild Thing · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs