Retro palette
Halcyon Canyon
Five retro stops with room to breathe — #8b3435 grounds, #b75f5d and #d57a77 do the talking, #de8f8b softens, #fdaba7 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.
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#8b3435
#b75f5d
#d57a77
#de8f8b
#fdaba7
The generator opens with #8b3435 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.