Acoustic Brown on Summer Crush
#766b69 on #f2d6da
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
3.78:1
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 55.4
Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 34.1
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#6a5f5d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #f2d6da, 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 3.73:1, ΔE00 33.4.
deuteranopia
Ratio 3.80:1, ΔE00 33.6.
tritanopia
Ratio 3.79:1, ΔE00 35.9.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 33.4 apart against 34.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Acoustic Brown ·Summer Crush · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs