Retro palette
Crimson Pagoda
Five retro stops with room to breathe — #830d1d grounds, #af4345 and #ce5f5e do the talking, #d57673 softens, #f4918e lifts. The triadic bones keep it coherent across podcast cover art at sixty pixels square. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA as a text pair.
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#830d1d
#af4345
#ce5f5e
#d57673
#f4918e
The generator opens with #830d1d as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.