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For text against a white background, the following CSS colors do not meet the minimum contrast ratio (4.5:1) specified by Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. Contrast [ d ] Color sample
A guide on using colors in web design and development, covering color theory, accessibility, and practical applications.
In general, text color should not be anything other than black or white (excluding the standard colors of hyperlinks), and background colors should contrast the text color enough to make the template easily readable. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Colors for more information.
The table at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Colors shows the results for 14 hues of finding the darkest or lightest backgrounds that are AAA-compliant against black text, white text, linked text and visited linked text. Google Chrome has a color contrast debugger with visual guide and color-picker.
A color term (or color name) is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. The color term may refer to human perception of that color (which is affected by visual context) which is usually defined according to the Munsell color system, or to an underlying physical property (such as a specific wavelength of visible light).
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Either no colors should be specified (to invoke the browser's default colors), or both the background and all foreground colors (such as the colors of plain text, unvisited links, hovered links, active links, and visited links) should be specified to avoid black on black or white on white effects.
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