Ms. Pac-Man Kiss on Castro
#ff00aa on #44232f
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
3.82:1
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 -36.3
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 38.8
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 #44232f, 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 2.55:1, ΔE00 27.5.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.43:1, ΔE00 38.4.
tritanopia
Ratio 6.02:1, ΔE00 52.8.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 27.5 apart against 38.8 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Ms. Pac-Man Kiss ·Castro · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs