Secret Path on Diesel
#737054 on #322c2b
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
2.73:1
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 -22.4
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 26.0
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#989578 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #322c2b, 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 2.74:1, ΔE00 25.3.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.72:1, ΔE00 24.9.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.72:1, ΔE00 22.7.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 22.7 apart against 26.0 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Secret Path ·Diesel · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs