Super Pink on Acoustic Brown
#ce6ba6 on #766b69
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
1.54:1
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 -14.2
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 25.3
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ffeaf5 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #766b69, 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 1.31:1, ΔE00 20.2.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.66:1, ΔE00 18.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.96:1, ΔE00 21.5.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.5 apart against 25.3 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Super Pink ·Acoustic Brown · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs