Cherry on Top on Salted Capers
#ac495c on #a69151
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
1.76:1
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 16.7
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 38.0
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#5f0021 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #a69151, 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 2.11:1, ΔE00 29.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.62:1, ΔE00 17.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.32:1, ΔE00 7.7.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 7.7 apart against 38.0 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.
Both colours have pages of their own: Cherry on Top ·Salted Capers · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs