Magic Carpet on Hint of Blue
#9488be on #cee1f2
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
2.40:1
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 40.3
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 25.9
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#675b8e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #cee1f2, 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 2.49:1, ΔE00 24.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.36:1, ΔE00 22.8.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.32:1, ΔE00 21.2.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 21.2 apart against 25.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Magic Carpet ·Hint of Blue · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs