Nougat on Super Pink

#ae8a78 on #ce6ba6

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

1.07:1

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 25.1

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#3c1f10 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ce6ba6, 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 1.21:1, ΔE00 29.4.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.01:1, ΔE00 23.1.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.11:1, ΔE00 2.6.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 2.6 apart against 25.1 for a trichromat — effectively one colour. If anything on your interface depends on telling these apart, it needs a second signal.

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