Pastel Brown on Ethereal Espresso
#836953 on #3e2723
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
2.71:1
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 -22.0
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 23.8
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#a98e77 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #3e2723, 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 2.69:1, ΔE00 23.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.71:1, ΔE00 23.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.70:1, ΔE00 24.3.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 23.2 apart against 23.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Pastel Brown ·Ethereal Espresso · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs