Frozen Forest on Ghost Writer
#cfe8b6 on #bcb7ad
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
1.51:1
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 -23.0
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 19.1
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#3b4f24 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #bcb7ad, 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 1.56:1, ΔE00 15.5.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.48:1, ΔE00 13.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.49:1, ΔE00 29.3.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 13.5 apart against 19.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Frozen Forest ·Ghost Writer · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs