Ethereal Espresso on Quiet Abyss
#3e2723 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
1.38:1
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 23.4
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#917570 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 26.6.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.40:1, ΔE00 29.7.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.47:1, ΔE00 32.4.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 26.6 apart against 23.4 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Ethereal Espresso ·Quiet Abyss · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs