Frozen Forest on Quiet Abyss
#cfe8b6 on #160435
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
14.39:1
Passes AA for body text
AAA too. Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -87.0
Clears Lc 75 — body text at a normal size and weight.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 90.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
Nothing to fix
This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #cfe8b6 can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 14.95:1, ΔE00 93.0.
deuteranopia
Ratio 14.10:1, ΔE00 89.8.
tritanopia
Ratio 14.23:1, ΔE00 81.6.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 81.6 apart against 90.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Frozen Forest ·Quiet Abyss · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs