Neon Boneyard on Double Denim
#dfc5fe on #95bce1
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
1.28:1
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 -12.8
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 20.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#573f6f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #95bce1, 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 1.20:1, ΔE00 5.3.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.33:1, ΔE00 7.0.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.38:1, ΔE00 39.8.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 5.3 apart against 20.5 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.
Both colours have pages of their own: Neon Boneyard ·Double Denim · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs