Matt Green on Ms. Pac-Man Kiss
#39ad48 on #ff00aa
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
1.24:1
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 86.8
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#002705 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ff00aa, 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 2.20:1, ΔE00 58.4.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.02:1, ΔE00 32.2.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.50:1, ΔE00 68.0.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 32.2 apart against 86.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Matt Green ·Ms. Pac-Man Kiss · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs