Atomic Pink on Wild Thing

#fb7efd on #654243

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

3.94:1

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 -45.6

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.

Colour difference

ΔE00 46.1

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#fe93ff is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #654243, 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

Body text

Ratio 3.50:1, ΔE00 44.3.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 4.15:1, ΔE00 49.9.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 4.36:1, ΔE00 41.2.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 41.2 apart against 46.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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