Dragon’s Fire on Summer Crush
#fc4a14 on #f2d6da
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
2.51:1
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 40.2
Clears Lc 30 — the floor: below this the draft considers text not readable at any size.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 35.1
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#b72f00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #f2d6da, 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 3.58:1, ΔE00 39.5.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.18:1, ΔE00 31.1.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.47:1, ΔE00 9.3.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 9.3 apart against 35.1 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 ·Summer Crush · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs