Corrosive Green on Nordic Noir

#54d905 on #003344

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

7.26:1

Passes AA for body text

AAA too. Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc -63.0

Clears Lc 60 — headlines and other larger text.

Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.

Colour difference

ΔE00 71.6

different colours

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

Nothing to fix

This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #54d905 can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 7.75:1, ΔE00 74.3.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 6.98:1, ΔE00 71.5.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 6.36:1, ΔE00 50.8.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 50.8 apart against 71.6 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Corrosive Green ·Nordic Noir · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs