Magic Carpet on Darkest Forest
#9488be on #223311
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
4.21:1
Large text only
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -37.5
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 49.8
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#998dc4 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #223311, 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 4.04:1, ΔE00 49.4.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.30:1, ΔE00 49.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 4.25:1, ΔE00 35.7.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 35.7 apart against 49.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Magic Carpet ·Darkest Forest · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs