Panorama on Neon Boneyard

#327a88 on #dfc5fe

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

3.17:1

Large text only

Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc 46.3

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 40.5

different colours

Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.

What the text colour has to become

#146270 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #dfc5fe, 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

Body text

Ratio 2.85:1, ΔE00 28.0.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 3.37:1, ΔE00 31.2.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.26:1, ΔE00 55.1.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 28.0 apart against 40.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Panorama ·Neon Boneyard · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs