Secret Passage on Master Chief
#372a05 on #507d2a
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
2.88:1
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 25.0
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 30.9
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#fff5dd is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #507d2a, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 3.13:1, ΔE00 27.3.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.75:1, ΔE00 23.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.70:1, ΔE00 47.9.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 23.5 apart against 30.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Secret Passage ·Master Chief · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs