Sumi palette
Lilac Boulevard
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #7b0024, #b02f45, #cf4d5e, #d66772, #f6838d form a monochromatic sumi 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.
redsumifive-stophigh-contrast
#7b0024
#b02f45
#cf4d5e
#d66772
#f6838d
The generator opens with #7b0024 as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.