Matt Green on Heavy Cream
#39ad48 on #e8ddc6
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
2.15:1
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 35.4
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 31.8
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#00731e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #e8ddc6, 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 1.91:1, ΔE00 21.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.30:1, ΔE00 23.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.32:1, ΔE00 60.5.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 21.8 apart against 31.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Matt Green ·Heavy Cream · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs