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Chicory Drift Marina

Rating 1516 · 4 matchups.

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Color & contrast

Published contrast 2.03:1 — fails AA — beautiful, but hard to read at text sizes.

B is darkened to #14517A for interface text; the swatch above shows the pair exactly as published.

Dim / secondary text sits at 4.52:1.

Body text · needs 4.5:1 · fails
Large text · needs 3:1 · fails
Handgloves
16px · fails AA

The pair exactly as published, at the size you drag to. AA needs 4.5:1 for body, 3:1 at large sizes (24px+).

AB
Hex#2DD2D0#2289CD
RGBrgb(45, 210, 208)rgb(34, 137, 205)
HSLhsl(179, 65%, 50%)hsl(204, 72%, 47%)

Published 14 Aug 2026.

Live specimen

Almost before we knew it

The pair at the sizes real interface text gets used — a heading, a line of body copy, and a button. If all three hold up here, the pair works.

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Ranking

Rating 1516 · 4 matchups · 25% neither.

Needs 6 more matchups before it can reign.

Colour-blind view

Contrast is a luminance ratio, and colour blindness keeps luminance — so it barely moves below. What moves is distinguishability: how far apart the two colours stay (ΔE). That is the number to watch, and why this section exists. You can publish any of these as its own pair.

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Make it pass

    
#2289CD on #2DD2D0 is 2.03:1 — fails AA for body text. The nearest passing ink is #14517A, which clears 4.5:1 without moving the ground.

    
Handgloves — #14517A

    
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On screen vs on paper

    
A backlit display flatters a pair; paper doesn't. Warm stock instead of #FFFFFF, a smaller gamut, lower contrast — this is where the verdict often changes.

    

      

        
HandglovesThe quick brown fox.

        
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HandglovesThe quick brown fox.

        
On paper — approximate

      

    

    
An approximation of warm stock, reduced gamut and lower contrast — not a colour-managed proof, and no claim about a specific press. For signage at distance, shrink the specimen with the size slider above.

  



    

      
Which holds up better?

      

        
        
      

      

        
      

    

  


  
  

  

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