Salted Capers on Atlas Cedar
#a69151 on #5ca0a7
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
1.04:1
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 0.0
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Too close to call.
Colour difference
ΔE00 32.1
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#3a2d00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #5ca0a7, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 1.15:1, ΔE00 28.4.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.02:1, ΔE00 34.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.06:1, ΔE00 65.0.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 28.4 apart against 32.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Salted Capers ·Atlas Cedar · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs