Intergalactic Cowboy on Sprinkled With Pink
#222266 on #e7a2ae
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
6.84:1
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 58.2
Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 59.9
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 6.20:1, ΔE00 53.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 7.17:1, ΔE00 64.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 7.87:1, ΔE00 86.5.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 53.8 apart against 59.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Intergalactic Cowboy ·Sprinkled With Pink · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs