Sprinkled With Pink on Quiet Abyss

#e7a2ae on #160435

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

9.23:1

Passes AA for body text

AAA too. Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc -61.4

Clears Lc 60 — headlines and other larger text.

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

Colour difference

ΔE00 63.6

different colours

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

Nothing to fix

This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #e7a2ae can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 8.48:1, ΔE00 58.9.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 9.62:1, ΔE00 67.6.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 10.58:1, ΔE00 78.8.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 58.9 apart against 63.6 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Sprinkled With Pink ·Quiet Abyss · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs