Belladonna on Florida’s Alligator
#220011 on #664422
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
2.24:1
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 13.5
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 28.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#e1acc1 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #664422, 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 2.16:1, ΔE00 28.6.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.29:1, ΔE00 27.0.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.41:1, ΔE00 25.4.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 25.4 apart against 28.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Belladonna ·Florida’s Alligator · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs