Magic Carpet on Sablé
#9488be on #f6d8be
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
2.37:1
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 39.6
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 36.1
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#675b8d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #f6d8be, 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 2.33:1, ΔE00 39.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.39:1, ΔE00 40.7.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.43:1, ΔE00 47.6.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 39.2 apart against 36.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Magic Carpet ·Sablé · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs