Retro palette
Simmered Marsh
Five retro stops with room to breathe — #9d2b27 grounds, #ca5b52 and #e9776c do the talking, #f08e83 softens, #ffb4ab lifts. The complementary 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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#9d2b27
#ca5b52
#e9776c
#f08e83
#ffb4ab
The generator opens with #9d2b27 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.