Castro on Magic Carpet
#44232f on #9488be
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
4.27:1
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 38.8
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 39.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#401f2b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #9488be, 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 4.46:1, ΔE00 38.7.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.18:1, ΔE00 39.6.
tritanopia
Ratio 3.88:1, ΔE00 45.0.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 38.7 apart against 39.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Castro ·Magic Carpet · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs