Sablé on Master Sword Blue

#f6d8be on #00ffee

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

1.07:1

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 36.6

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#7b614a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #00ffee, 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 1.25:1, ΔE00 10.8.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.02:1, ΔE00 24.7.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.34:1, ΔE00 57.8.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 10.8 apart against 36.6 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Sablé ·Master Sword Blue · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs