Kissed by Mist on Double Denim

#fcccf5 on #95bce1

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

1.43:1

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 -19.5

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

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

Colour difference

ΔE00 30.5

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#643c5f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #95bce1, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.30:1, ΔE00 6.6.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.50:1, ΔE00 12.1.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.57:1, ΔE00 62.9.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 6.6 apart against 30.5 for a trichromat — still two colours, but a closer call than it looks to you.

Both colours have pages of their own: Kissed by Mist ·Double Denim · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs