Chocolate Castle on Super Pink

#452207 on #ce6ba6

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

4.23:1

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 38.1

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 45.4

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#401d03 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ce6ba6, 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 3.78:1, ΔE00 45.2.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 4.44:1, ΔE00 45.7.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 4.74:1, ΔE00 42.9.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 42.9 apart against 45.4 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Chocolate Castle ·Super Pink · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs