Retro palette
Caramel Beacon
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #870011, #bd3233, #dd514d, #e36c65, #ff8b83 form a monochromatic retro set with somewhere to stand at every lightness. Made for podcast cover art at sixty pixels square. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA as a text pair.
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#870011
#bd3233
#dd514d
#e36c65
#ff8b83
The generator opens with #870011 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.