Ms. Pac-Man Kiss on Black Box

#ff00aa on #0f282f

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

4.27:1

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 -38.0

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 46.1

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#ff27ac is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #0f282f, 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 2.62:1, ΔE00 27.4.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 5.19:1, ΔE00 40.5.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 7.49:1, ΔE00 78.7.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 27.4 apart against 46.1 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Ms. Pac-Man Kiss ·Black Box · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs