Ms. Pac-Man Kiss on Atomic Pink

#ff00aa on #fb7efd

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

1.63:1

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 15.7

Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.

Dark text on a lighter ground.

Colour difference

ΔE00 17.3

different colours

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

What the text colour has to become

#840056 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #fb7efd, 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 2.14:1, ΔE00 21.4.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 1.49:1, ΔE00 16.9.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 1.16:1, ΔE00 3.8.

The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 3.8 apart against 17.3 for a trichromat — effectively one colour. If anything on your interface depends on telling these apart, it needs a second signal.

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