Retro palette
Lilac Pavilion
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #7b0a31, #a74057, #c55b71, #ce7282, #ec8d9d form a analogous 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.
redretrofive-stophigh-contrast
#7b0a31
#a74057
#c55b71
#ce7282
#ec8d9d
The generator opens with #7b0a31 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.