Good article! Somehow, my painful process of stumbling around, trying to come up with a web-accessible color palette mirrored what you did! Wish I read this article much earlier…

I was using this tool for color accessibility: http://heiswayi.github.io/color-contrast-checker/#fg=FFF5F3,bg=BB0B2E Neat thing about it is that you can modify the parameters of the color until it satisfies the requirements!