Retro palette
Soft Mill
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #9e2400, #cc5539, #eb7154, #f28970, #ffb09d form a complementary retro set with somewhere to stand at every lightness. Made for book covers that read at thumbnail size. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA for large text.
redretrofive-stop
#9e2400
#cc5539
#eb7154
#f28970
#ffb09d
The generator opens with #9e2400 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.