Super Pink on Double Denim

#ce6ba6 on #95bce1

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

1.68:1

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 20.0

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

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 38.7

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#812460 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #95bce1, 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

Body text

Ratio 2.09:1, ΔE00 18.9.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.51:1, ΔE00 13.4.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.24:1, ΔE00 58.7.

The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 13.4 apart against 38.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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