Nickel on Frozen Forest
#929292 on #cfe8b6
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
2.35:1
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 39.8
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 27.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#646464 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #cfe8b6, 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 2.41:1, ΔE00 26.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.32:1, ΔE00 25.4.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.33:1, ΔE00 24.4.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 24.4 apart against 27.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Nickel ·Frozen Forest · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs