Intrigue Red on Super Pink

#b24648 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

1.63:1

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 13.9

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

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 23.1

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#55000d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ce6ba6, 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

Body text

Ratio 1.73:1, ΔE00 31.1.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.58:1, ΔE00 30.9.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.42:1, ΔE00 9.5.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 9.5 apart against 23.1 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.

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