Master Chief on Neon Boneyard

#507d2a on #dfc5fe

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

3.15:1

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 46.1

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 51.9

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#396409 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #dfc5fe, 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 2.88:1, ΔE00 51.8.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 3.30:1, ΔE00 51.3.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.22:1, ΔE00 47.4.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 47.4 apart against 51.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Master Chief ·Neon Boneyard · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs