Ethereal Espresso on Queens of the Dead
#3e2723 on #652793
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
1.49:1
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 7.7
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 29.3
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ccaea9 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #652793, 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 1.39:1, ΔE00 33.0.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.54:1, ΔE00 35.2.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.46:1, ΔE00 9.1.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 9.1 apart against 29.3 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.
Both colours have pages of their own: Ethereal Espresso ·Queens of the Dead · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs