Porcini on Atomic Pink

#d9ae86 on #fb7efd

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

1.09:1

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 0.0

Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.

Too close to call.

Colour difference

ΔE00 42.0

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#5f3b13 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #fb7efd, 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

Body text

Ratio 1.24:1, ΔE00 47.6.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.03:1, ΔE00 44.7.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.04:1, ΔE00 1.0.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 1.0 apart against 42.0 for a trichromat — effectively one colour. If anything on your interface depends on telling these apart, it needs a second signal.

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