Nougat on Atomic Pink

#ae8a78 on #fb7efd

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

1.42:1

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 13.3

Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 34.5

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#5b3b2b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #fb7efd, 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 1.24:1, ΔE00 39.4.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.50:1, ΔE00 39.1.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.62:1, ΔE00 12.4.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 12.4 apart against 34.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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