Master Chief on Crepuscular

#507d2a on #e7dcce

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

3.60:1

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 53.9

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 39.1

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#416e18 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #e7dcce, 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 3.35:1, ΔE00 34.2.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 3.75:1, ΔE00 36.0.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.67:1, ΔE00 55.8.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 34.2 apart against 39.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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