WCAG Standards:
All text should be legible and meet accessibility standards. "The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) level AA requires a 4.5:1 color contrast between text and background for normal text, and 3:1 to large text."

Legibility Standards

- Text on colored backgrounds
- Using text opacity
- Dark text on light backgrounds
- Colored text and backgrounds

Text Backgrounds

- Helper text
- Selected Text
- Icons and Other symbols

Text Types

- Legibility Standards
- Text Backgrounds
- Text Types

Arizona State University

"Color plays an important role in text legibility."

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