Sprinkled With Pink on Castro

#e7a2ae on #44232f

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

6.66:1

Passes AA for body text

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

APCA

Lc -57.5

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

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

Colour difference

ΔE00 53.5

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 6.42:1, ΔE00 49.8.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 6.78:1, ΔE00 54.8.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 6.94:1, ΔE00 58.4.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 49.8 apart against 53.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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