Quiet Abyss on Atomic Pink
#160435 on #fb7efd
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
8.62:1
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 60.0
Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 59.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
Nothing to fix
This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #160435 can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 7.23:1, ΔE00 50.4.
deuteranopia
Ratio 9.34:1, ΔE00 60.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 10.66:1, ΔE00 79.1.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 50.4 apart against 59.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Quiet Abyss ·Atomic Pink · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs