Wild Thing on Neon Boneyard
#654243 on #dfc5fe
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
5.62:1
Passes AA for body text
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc 62.2
Clears Lc 60 — headlines and other larger text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 50.1
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
Nothing to fix
This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #654243 can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 5.85:1, ΔE00 52.7.
deuteranopia
Ratio 5.50:1, ΔE00 52.1.
tritanopia
Ratio 5.05:1, ΔE00 44.5.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 44.5 apart against 50.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Wild Thing ·Neon Boneyard · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs