Kelp on Belladonna
#4d503c on #220011
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
2.35:1
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 -12.9
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 33.4
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#787b66 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #220011, 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 2.44:1, ΔE00 26.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.30:1, ΔE00 22.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.20:1, ΔE00 18.9.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.9 apart against 33.4 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Kelp ·Belladonna · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs