Porcini on Super Pink

#d9ae86 on #ce6ba6

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

1.65:1

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 -21.0

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 35.4

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#3c2000 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ce6ba6, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.86:1, ΔE00 39.3.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.56:1, ΔE00 31.1.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.41:1, ΔE00 8.8.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 8.8 apart against 35.4 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.

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