Sprinkled With Pink on Panorama

#e7a2ae on #327a88

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

2.38:1

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 -33.5

Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.

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

Colour difference

ΔE00 52.9

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#fff2f4 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #327a88, 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 2.00:1, ΔE00 19.8.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.61:1, ΔE00 32.8.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 2.80:1, ΔE00 75.0.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 19.8 apart against 52.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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