Clairvoyant on God of Rain

#480656 on #4466cc

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

2.80:1

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 22.8

Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 33.9

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#fae8ff is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #4466cc, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.22:1, ΔE00 27.0.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.61:1, ΔE00 23.2.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 2.47:1, ΔE00 58.2.

The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 23.2 apart against 33.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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