Circus palette
Chalky Marsh
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #8e0001, #bc4135, #db5e4f, #e27668, #ff9485 form a analogous circus set with somewhere to stand at every lightness. Made for podcast cover art at sixty pixels square. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA as a text pair.
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#8e0001
#bc4135
#db5e4f
#e27668
#ff9485
The generator opens with #8e0001 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.