Super Pink on Heavy Cream
#ce6ba6 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
2.48:1
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 41.1
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 39.3
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#9e407a 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 2.93:1, ΔE00 39.5.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.30:1, ΔE00 29.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.95:1, ΔE00 18.5.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.5 apart against 39.3 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Super Pink ·Heavy Cream · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs