Wild Thing on Sablé
#654243 on #f6d8be
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
6.42:1
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 69.9
Clears Lc 60 — headlines and other larger text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 50.8
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 6.66:1, ΔE00 52.0.
deuteranopia
Ratio 6.30:1, ΔE00 49.1.
tritanopia
Ratio 5.88:1, ΔE00 47.6.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 47.6 apart against 50.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Wild Thing ·Sablé · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs