Cover of Night on Magic Carpet
#494e4f 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
2.62:1
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 27.7
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 31.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#262a2b 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 2.56:1, ΔE00 30.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.66:1, ΔE00 30.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.64:1, ΔE00 26.0.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 26.0 apart against 31.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Cover of Night ·Magic Carpet · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs