Cover of Night on Super Pink

#494e4f 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

2.53:1

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 26.6

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

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 29.4

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#232728 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 2.10:1, ΔE00 24.0.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.75:1, ΔE00 28.2.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.24:1, ΔE00 51.0.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 24.0 apart against 29.4 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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