Sprinkled With Pink on Atlas Cedar
#e7a2ae on #5ca0a7
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
1.45:1
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 -15.9
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 48.3
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#531c2a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #5ca0a7, 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 1.22:1, ΔE00 6.9.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.58:1, ΔE00 21.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.74:1, ΔE00 69.5.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 6.9 apart against 48.3 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.
Both colours have pages of their own: Sprinkled With Pink ·Atlas Cedar · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs