Dragon’s Fire on Master Sword Blue

#fc4a14 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

2.70:1

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 45.3

Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 68.7

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#c03100 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #00ffee, 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 4.48:1, ΔE00 42.4.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 2.14:1, ΔE00 42.9.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.12:1, ΔE00 55.5.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 42.4 apart against 68.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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