Nougat on Corrosive Green

#ae8a78 on #54d905

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

1.69:1

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 21.7

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

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 43.2

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#664636 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #54d905, 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 1.99:1, ΔE00 28.1.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.54:1, ΔE00 21.3.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.35:1, ΔE00 58.7.

The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 21.3 apart against 43.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Nougat ·Corrosive Green · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs