Retro palette
Brindle Mill
Five retro stops with room to breathe — #7e1912 grounds, #aa493d and #c86457 do the talking, #d07a6d softens, #ef9588 lifts. The monochromatic 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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#7e1912
#aa493d
#c86457
#d07a6d
#ef9588
The generator opens with #7e1912 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.