Retro palette
Sooty Caravan
Five retro stops with room to breathe — #a1362b grounds, #ce6456 and #ed8070 do the talking, #f59688 softens, #ffbeb3 lifts. The split-complementary bones keep it coherent across book covers that read at thumbnail size. The darkest and lightest stops clear AA for large text.
redretrofive-stop
#a1362b
#ce6456
#ed8070
#f59688
#ffbeb3
The generator opens with #a1362b as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.