Kelp on Opera
#4d503c on #816575
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
1.60:1
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 11.1
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 28.0
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#edf1d9 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #816575, 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 1.52:1, ΔE00 19.9.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.65:1, ΔE00 18.0.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.68:1, ΔE00 24.6.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.0 apart against 28.0 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Kelp ·Opera · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs