Wild Thing on Porcini

#654243 on #d9ae86

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

4.29:1

Large text only

Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc 48.2

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 43.8

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#623f40 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #d9ae86, 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

Body text

Ratio 4.34:1, ΔE00 44.2.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 4.26:1, ΔE00 42.3.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 4.19:1, ΔE00 40.3.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 40.3 apart against 43.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Wild Thing ·Porcini · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs