Cover of Night on Zoodles
#494e4f on #b8bf71
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
4.32:1
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 49.4
Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 46.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#464b4c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #b8bf71, 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 4.32:1, ΔE00 46.7.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.32:1, ΔE00 47.1.
tritanopia
Ratio 4.32:1, ΔE00 48.4.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 46.7 apart against 46.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Cover of Night ·Zoodles · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs