Spice palette
Smoky Mesa
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #626000, #8c8a00, #a7a633, #b5b55b, #d2d278 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.
yellowspicefive-stop
#626000
#8c8a00
#a7a633
#b5b55b
#d2d278
The generator opens with #626000 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.