Retro palette
Dappled Crossing
Five retro stops with room to breathe — #835c00 grounds, #b08535 and #cda153 do the talking, #d8b272 softens, #f6cf8e lifts. The analogous bones keep it coherent across book covers that read at thumbnail size. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA for large text.
orangeretrofive-stop
#835c00
#b08535
#cda153
#d8b272
#f6cf8e
The generator opens with #835c00 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.