Frozen Forest on Wild Thing
#cfe8b6 on #654243
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
6.58:1
Passes AA for body text
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -74.1
Clears Lc 60 — headlines and other larger text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 60.1
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 7.23:1, ΔE00 54.6.
deuteranopia
Ratio 6.26:1, ΔE00 49.2.
tritanopia
Ratio 5.82:1, ΔE00 59.8.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 49.2 apart against 60.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Frozen Forest ·Wild Thing · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs