Dragon’s Fire on Corrosive Green

#fc4a14 on #54d905

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

1.84:1

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 23.7

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

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 70.3

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#942400 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #54d905, 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 3.02:1, ΔE00 29.8.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.48:1, ΔE00 9.8.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.08:1, ΔE00 60.3.

The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 9.8 apart against 70.3 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.

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