Noir palette
Crimson Plaza
Five noir stops with room to breathe — #8b1923 grounds, #b84b4c and #d76766 do the talking, #de7e7b softens, #fe9a96 lifts. The complementary bones keep it coherent across book covers that read at thumbnail size. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA as a text pair.
rednoirfive-stophigh-contrast
#8b1923
#b84b4c
#d76766
#de7e7b
#fe9a96
The generator opens with #8b1923 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.