Ms. Pac-Man Kiss on Neon Boneyard
#ff00aa on #dfc5fe
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
2.32:1
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 33.3
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 31.7
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ad0072 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #dfc5fe, 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 3.59:1, ΔE00 33.8.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.97:1, ΔE00 18.7.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.34:1, ΔE00 20.6.
The weakest of the three is deuteranopia, where the two are ΔE00 18.7 apart against 31.7 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Ms. Pac-Man Kiss ·Neon Boneyard · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs