Crepuscular on Nougat

#e7dcce on #ae8a78

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

2.32:1

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 -42.1

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 22.9

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#322a1f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ae8a78, 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

Body text

Ratio 2.42:1, ΔE00 21.9.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.26:1, ΔE00 20.5.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 2.14:1, ΔE00 21.4.

The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 20.5 apart against 22.9 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Crepuscular ·Nougat · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs