Intrigue Red on Abyssal Waters
#b24648 on #005765
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
1.51:1
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 -10.1
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 53.8
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ffa9a6 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #005765, 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 1.10:1, ΔE00 20.0.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.76:1, ΔE00 36.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.26:1, ΔE00 67.7.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 20.0 apart against 53.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Intrigue Red ·Abyssal Waters · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs