Dragon’s Fire on Ethereal Espresso
#fc4a14 on #3e2723
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
4.03:1
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 -36.9
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 42.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ff5c32 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #3e2723, 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 2.86:1, ΔE00 30.6.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.63:1, ΔE00 44.5.
tritanopia
Ratio 6.47:1, ΔE00 55.3.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 30.6 apart against 42.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Dragon’s Fire ·Ethereal Espresso · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs