[cratermoon]

Web accessibility guidelines suggest a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1, or for AAA success 7:1. https://webaim.org/articles/contrast/

At 13.5:1, the contrast ratio on your site (#D8DAD7/#0F100F) is a bit much. With a background of #444444 the ratio would be 6.92:1, just shy of a AAA result.

You can check your colors at https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

[selfsimilar]

WCAG doesn't define a maximum contrast.

edit:

Interesting discussion about the effect of fonts, dyslexia, and dark-mode wrt "too much contrast" in this UX StackExchange thread. https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/123504/maximum-contra...

[cratermoon]

Yes, I know. The question was about what is "dark enough", given a light foreground text. #444444 is dark enough.

[Andrex]

I'm out of date then, I thought high contrast was desirable.

Edit- also I'm not the OP.

[zamadatix]

I don't think you're out of date rather the parent is conflating WCAG saying "don't have contrast less than" as if it meant "your contrast should be near".

[cratermoon]

No, the question was about what background is "dark enough", i.e. sufficiently dark to provide good contrast with the foreground color.

[zamadatix]

Ah, that is definitely true and I agree with your conclusion about it. I think these two replies were specifically in response to the "At 13.5:1, the contrast ratio on your site (#D8DAD7/#0F100F) is a bit much" portion though, it read as if 13.5:1 was too much contrast instead of just more than the minimum. Sorry for misinterpreting that bit!

[cratermoon]

Thank you for helping me clarify my point; I definitely could have done better.