Corrosive Green on Super Pink

#54d905 on #ce6ba6

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

1.80:1

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 -26.2

Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.

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

Colour difference

ΔE00 78.9

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#0b2d00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ce6ba6, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 2.40:1, ΔE00 55.5.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.56:1, ΔE00 40.6.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.22:1, ΔE00 59.0.

The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 40.6 apart against 78.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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