Super Pink on Ballet

#ce6ba6 on #f7d5d4

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 40.4

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 28.5

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#9d3f7a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #f7d5d4, 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 2.82:1, ΔE00 32.6.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.31:1, ΔE00 25.6.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.96:1, ΔE00 16.9.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 16.9 apart against 28.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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