Wild Thing on Dwarf Fortress
#654243 on #1d0200
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
2.28:1
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 -12.1
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 20.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#956f6f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #1d0200, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 2.17:1, ΔE00 18.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.33:1, ΔE00 20.2.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.42:1, ΔE00 26.3.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.8 apart against 20.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Wild Thing ·Dwarf Fortress · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs