Retro palette
Bitter Ridge
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #8a3c00, #c65a01, #e57631, #ec8d57, #ffb085 form a monochromatic retro 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.
orangeretrofive-stop
#8a3c00
#c65a01
#e57631
#ec8d57
#ffb085
The generator opens with #8a3c00 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.