Neon Boneyard on God of Rain

#dfc5fe on #4466cc

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

3.37:1

Large text only

Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc -50.9

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.

Colour difference

ΔE00 37.5

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#f3eaff is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #4466cc, 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 3.15:1, ΔE00 31.3.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 3.50:1, ΔE00 34.6.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 3.43:1, ΔE00 57.6.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 31.3 apart against 37.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Neon Boneyard ·God of Rain · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs