Crepuscular on Sablé
#e7dcce on #f6d8be
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
1.00:1
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 0.0
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Too close to call.
Colour difference
ΔE00 7.4
clearly different
Between 5 and 10 — nobody would call these the same colour.
What the text colour has to become
#6a6154 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #f6d8be, 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 1.02:1, ΔE00 4.9.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.01:1, ΔE00 5.9.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.02:1, ΔE00 15.4.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 4.9 apart against 7.4 for a trichromat — effectively one colour. If anything on your interface depends on telling these apart, it needs a second signal.
Both colours have pages of their own: Crepuscular ·Sablé · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs