Ghost Writer on Heavy Cream
#bcb7ad on #e8ddc6
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
1.48:1
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 19.2
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 10.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#676259 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #e8ddc6, 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
Ratio 1.47:1, ΔE00 10.6.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.49:1, ΔE00 10.9.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.48:1, ΔE00 13.8.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 10.6 apart against 10.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Ghost Writer ·Heavy Cream · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs