Acoustic Brown on Ballet

#766b69 on #f7d5d4

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 34.4

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 #f7d5d4, 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 3.71:1, ΔE00 33.2.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 3.82:1, ΔE00 33.8.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.85:1, ΔE00 37.2.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 33.2 apart against 34.4 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Acoustic Brown ·Ballet · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs