Double Denim on Matt Green

#95bce1 on #39ad48

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

1.46:1

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 -16.3

Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.

Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.

Colour difference

ΔE00 42.9

different colours

Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.

What the text colour has to become

#0f3351 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #39ad48, 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

Body text

Ratio 1.36:1, ΔE00 43.3.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.52:1, ΔE00 43.5.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.47:1, ΔE00 11.4.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 11.4 apart against 42.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Double Denim ·Matt Green · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs