Atomic Pink on Master Sword Blue

#fb7efd 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

1.74:1

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 27.9

Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 54.5

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#aa2dad 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 2.38:1, ΔE00 35.5.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.48:1, ΔE00 16.3.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.00:1, ΔE00 56.0.

The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 16.3 apart against 54.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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