Spice palette
Marigold Pier
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #8b0032, #c42d54, #e44d6e, #ea6b81, #ff90a0 form a 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 as a text pair.
pinkspicefive-stophigh-contrast
#8b0032
#c42d54
#e44d6e
#ea6b81
#ff90a0
The generator opens with #8b0032 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.