Intergalactic Cowboy on Matt Green
#222266 on #39ad48
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
4.87:1
Passes AA for body text
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc 43.5
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 63.9
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
Nothing to fix
This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #222266 can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 5.41:1, ΔE00 70.3.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.58:1, ΔE00 64.2.
tritanopia
Ratio 4.53:1, ΔE00 37.6.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 37.6 apart against 63.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Intergalactic Cowboy ·Matt Green · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs