Highlander on Sprinkled With Pink

#3a533d on #e7a2ae

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

4.10:1

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 46.8

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 56.4

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#344d37 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #e7a2ae, 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 3.58:1, ΔE00 37.7.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 4.39:1, ΔE00 41.4.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 4.76:1, ΔE00 68.6.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 37.7 apart against 56.4 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Highlander ·Sprinkled With Pink · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs