Monochrome palette
Maroon Lane
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #6e6300, #9b8c00, #b7a835, #c4b85e, #e1d57b form a split-complementary monochrome set with somewhere to stand at every lightness. Made for book covers that read at thumbnail size. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA for large text.
ambermonochromefive-stop
#6e6300
#9b8c00
#b7a835
#c4b85e
#e1d57b
The generator opens with #6e6300 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.