Super Pink on Abyssal Waters

#ce6ba6 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

2.46:1

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 -25.9

Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.

Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.

Colour difference

ΔE00 48.9

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#ffa3d7 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

Body text

Ratio 1.91:1, ΔE00 18.0.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.79:1, ΔE00 28.1.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.21:1, ΔE00 74.6.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.0 apart against 48.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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