Nickel on Master Chief
#929292 on #507d2a
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
1.57:1
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 -14.8
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 26.6
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#f6f6f6 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #507d2a, 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 1.47:1, ΔE00 24.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.62:1, ΔE00 24.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.59:1, ΔE00 24.4.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 24.2 apart against 26.6 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Nickel ·Master Chief · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs