Flirt on Midnight Edition
#7a2e4d on #0c121b
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
2.08:1
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 -11.6
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 30.8
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#b56281 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #0c121b, 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 1.75:1, ΔE00 14.0.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.26:1, ΔE00 21.0.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.72:1, ΔE00 44.3.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 14.0 apart against 30.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Flirt ·Midnight Edition · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs