Ms. Pac-Man Kiss on Ballet
#ff00aa on #f7d5d4
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
2.64:1
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 40.7
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 34.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#bc007c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #f7d5d4, 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 4.04:1, ΔE00 44.7.
deuteranopia
Ratio 2.25:1, ΔE00 25.1.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.55:1, ΔE00 10.9.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 10.9 apart against 34.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Ms. Pac-Man Kiss ·Ballet · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs