Heavy Cream on Atomic Pink

#e8ddc6 on #fb7efd

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

1.64:1

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 -26.4

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 41.6

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#4b422f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #fb7efd, 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 1.96:1, ΔE00 42.6.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.51:1, ΔE00 37.0.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.33:1, ΔE00 13.3.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 13.3 apart against 41.6 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Heavy Cream ·Atomic Pink · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs