Wild Thing on Darkest Forest
#654243 on #223311
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
1.56:1
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 -7.7
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 33.8
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#b38b8b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #223311, 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 1.42:1, ΔE00 14.3.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.63:1, ΔE00 12.7.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.76:1, ΔE00 39.7.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 12.7 apart against 33.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Wild Thing ·Darkest Forest · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs