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Midcentury palette

Waxed Mesa

Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #8a2c38, #b65860, #d4737a, #dd888d, #fca4a9 form a tetradic midcentury set with somewhere to stand at every lightness. Made for dashboards where status colors must survive color-vision differences. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA for large text.

redmidcenturyfive-stop
#8a2c38
#b65860
#d4737a
#dd888d
#fca4a9

The generator opens with #8a2c38 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.

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