Ms. Pac-Man Kiss on Diesel

#ff00aa on #322c2b

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

3.81:1

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 -36.4

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 43.4

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#ff4ab2 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #322c2b, 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 2.42:1, ΔE00 30.9.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 4.54:1, ΔE00 39.2.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 6.62:1, ΔE00 55.7.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 30.9 apart against 43.4 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

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