God of Rain on Atomic Pink

#4466cc on #fb7efd

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

2.37:1

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 30.5

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 38.2

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#1f399b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #fb7efd, 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 1.88:1, ΔE00 17.5.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.64:1, ΔE00 26.8.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 2.97:1, ΔE00 78.3.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 17.5 apart against 38.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: God of Rain ·Atomic Pink · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs