Secret Passage on Quiet Abyss
#372a05 on #160435
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
1.36:1
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 0.0
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Too close to call.
Colour difference
ΔE00 37.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#897a55 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #160435, 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 1.34:1, ΔE00 39.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.36:1, ΔE00 39.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.42:1, ΔE00 31.5.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 31.5 apart against 37.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Secret Passage ·Quiet Abyss · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs