Cyantific on Vintage Bloom
#77c9c2 on #c0b0d0
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
1.05:1
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 0.0
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Too close to call.
Colour difference
ΔE00 31.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#00524d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #c0b0d0, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 1.16:1, ΔE00 12.9.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.00:1, ΔE00 4.9.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.08:1, ΔE00 37.0.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 4.9 apart against 31.5 for a trichromat — effectively one colour. If anything on your interface depends on telling these apart, it needs a second signal.
Both colours have pages of their own: Cyantific ·Vintage Bloom · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs