Monochrome palette
Sooty Pagoda
Five monochrome stops with room to breathe — #645f00 grounds, #8f8900 and #aaa533 do the talking, #b8b45b softens, #d5d178 lifts. The split-complementary bones keep it coherent across book covers that read at thumbnail size. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA for large text.
yellowmonochromefive-stop
#645f00
#8f8900
#aaa533
#b8b45b
#d5d178
The generator opens with #645f00 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.