Pastel Brown on Magic Carpet
#836953 on #9488be
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
1.59:1
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 13.8
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 31.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#3b2510 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #9488be, 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 1.63:1, ΔE00 35.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.56:1, ΔE00 36.1.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.49:1, ΔE00 38.2.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 35.2 apart against 31.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Pastel Brown ·Magic Carpet · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs