Summer Crush on Cherry on Top
#f2d6da on #ac495c
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
3.99:1
Large text only
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -59.8
Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 38.0
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ffe3e7 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #ac495c, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 4.80:1, ΔE00 40.6.
deuteranopia
Ratio 3.68:1, ΔE00 33.7.
tritanopia
Ratio 2.87:1, ΔE00 26.4.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 26.4 apart against 38.0 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Summer Crush ·Cherry on Top · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs