Queens of the Dead on Master Chief

#652793 on #507d2a

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

1.90:1

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 15.0

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

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 70.6

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#f9f4ff is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #507d2a, 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 2.26:1, ΔE00 60.4.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.74:1, ΔE00 54.0.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.78:1, ΔE00 49.3.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 49.3 apart against 70.6 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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