Nougat on Darkest Forest
#ae8a78 on #223311
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
4.33:1
Large text only
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -38.6
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 44.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#b18d7b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #223311, 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 4.00:1, ΔE00 34.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.51:1, ΔE00 37.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 4.72:1, ΔE00 58.5.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 34.2 apart against 44.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Nougat ·Darkest Forest · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs