Retro palette
Speckled Reef
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #78212d, #a34d54, #c1686e, #ca7c80, #e8989b form a analogous 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 as a text pair.
redretrofive-stophigh-contrast
#78212d
#a34d54
#c1686e
#ca7c80
#e8989b
The generator opens with #78212d as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.