Cover of Night on Salted Capers
#494e4f on #a69151
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
2.73:1
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 29.3
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 35.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#292d2e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #a69151, 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 2.62:1, ΔE00 33.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.79:1, ΔE00 36.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.88:1, ΔE00 48.1.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 33.8 apart against 35.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Cover of Night ·Salted Capers · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs