Retro palette
Bitter Chapel
Five retro stops with room to breathe — #6c1e10 grounds, #97493a and #b46353 do the talking, #bd7768 softens, #db9283 lifts. The analogous bones keep it coherent across book covers that read at thumbnail size. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA as a text pair.
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#6c1e10
#97493a
#b46353
#bd7768
#db9283
The generator opens with #6c1e10 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.