Corrosive Green on Dragon’s Fire
#54d905 on #fc4a14
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
1.84:1
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 -26.0
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 70.3
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#0a2b00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #fc4a14, 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
Ratio 3.02:1, ΔE00 29.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.48:1, ΔE00 9.8.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.08:1, ΔE00 60.3.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 9.8 apart against 70.3 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.
Both colours have pages of their own: Corrosive Green ·Dragon’s Fire · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs