Queens of the Dead on Salted Capers
#652793 on #a69151
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
3.00:1
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 30.8
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 60.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#480070 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #a69151, 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 3.24:1, ΔE00 62.7.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.89:1, ΔE00 60.1.
tritanopia
Ratio 3.00:1, ΔE00 31.1.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 31.1 apart against 60.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Queens of the Dead ·Salted Capers · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs