Surf palette
Crocus Beacon
Dark anchor, working middle, light release: #9c001f, #ca4549, #ea6263, #f07c7a, #ffa4a0 form a triadic surf 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.
redsurffive-stophigh-contrast
#9c001f
#ca4549
#ea6263
#f07c7a
#ffa4a0
The generator opens with #9c001f as the primary and the next two stops as secondary and accent — adjust, check contrast, and export tokens or CSS from there.