Frozen Forest on Neon Boneyard
#cfe8b6 on #dfc5fe
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
1.17:1
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 -8.4
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 44.1
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#4b6034 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #dfc5fe, 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 1.24:1, ΔE00 37.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.14:1, ΔE00 35.0.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.15:1, ΔE00 28.2.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 28.2 apart against 44.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Frozen Forest ·Neon Boneyard · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs