Atlas Cedar on Memorial Black
#5ca0a7 on #091101
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
6.45:1
Passes AA for body text
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -45.1
Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 49.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
Nothing to fix
This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #5ca0a7 can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 6.89:1, ΔE00 50.1.
deuteranopia
Ratio 6.21:1, ΔE00 47.9.
tritanopia
Ratio 6.17:1, ΔE00 49.1.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 47.9 apart against 49.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Atlas Cedar ·Memorial Black · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs