Spice palette
Herbal Outpost
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #b40d31, #e24f5b, #ff7078, #ff8f91, #ffbebd form a split-complementary spice 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.
redspicefive-stop
#b40d31
#e24f5b
#ff7078
#ff8f91
#ffbebd
The generator opens with #b40d31 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.