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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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The pair as published — paste it into your stack. Where the AA-corrected ink differs, it's labelled, never swapped in silently. “Badge” embeds a live SVG of the pair and its rating.


    
  



    
Color & contrast

    
Published contrast 2.65:1 — fails AA — beautiful, but hard to read at text sizes.

    
B is darkened to #0B76B8 for interface text; the swatch above shows the pair exactly as published.

    
Dim / secondary text sits at 4.58:1.

    

      
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#F5F8FA#1DA1F2

        
RGBrgb(245, 248, 250)rgb(29, 161, 242)

        
HSLhsl(204, 33%, 97%)hsl(203, 89%, 53%)

      
    

    
Published 14 Aug 2026.

    
  



    
Make it pass

    
#1DA1F2 on #F5F8FA is 2.65:1 — fails AA for body text. The nearest passing ink is #0B76B8, which clears 4.5:1 without moving the ground.

    
Handgloves — #0B76B8

    
Publish #0B76B8 on #F5F8FA as its own pair →

  



    
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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Which holds up better?

      

        
        
      

      

        
      

    

  



    
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.

        
On screen

      

      

        
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.

  



    
Momentum

    
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