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Amber to Champagne gradient

Amber (#ffbf00) into Champagne (#f7e7ce) — 5° apart on the OKLCH hue wheel. Below: the same two stops interpolated in OKLab and in OKLCH, side by side, because the difference is real and most generators never let you see it; then an eased version and a mesh, each with the worst-case contrast for white and black text. The engine's own pick for this pair is oklab — both colours are in the palette and the hue gap is small enough that the straight line stays clean.

Amber → Champagne
black text · worst 12.70:1 · AA
white 1.22 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium

OKLab and OKLCH, side by side

Aa

A straight line through the a/b plane: the two hues meet halfway and desaturate a little at the midpoint. The safe default — it is what CSS and Tailwind default to.

white 1.22 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #f7e7ce 100%)
Aa

OKLCH (shorter hue)

Open in maker →

Chroma and hue interpolate separately, so the midpoint keeps its saturation and the hue travels the short way round the wheel — richer, and it can pass through hues neither colour has.

white 1.22 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ffbf00 0%, #f7e7ce 100%)

And the sRGB line most tools draw, for comparison — the number is the chroma that survives at the dullest point.

sRGB36%
OKLab36%
OKLCH36%

Eased and mesh

Aa

Eased (soft)

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A cubic-bezier(.4, 0, .6, 1) mix ratio baked into 15 stops: the transition lingers on each colour and moves faster through the middle, which is what makes a gradient read as designed rather than default.

white 1.22 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #ffc011 8.28%, #ffc128 16.03%, #fec43d 23.35%, #fec851 30.32%, #fdcc64 37.03%, #fcd076 43.56%, #fbd487 50%, #fbd897 56.44%, #fadca6 62.97%, #f9e0b3 69.68%, #f8e3be 76.65%, #f8e5c7 83.97%, #f7e6cc 91.72%, #f7e7ce 100%)
Aa

Both colours as stacked radials over a base, laid out by a seeded Poisson-disc sampler — the same seed gives the same mesh forever. Exports as CSS, SVG and PNG.

white 1.41 failsblack 13.39 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #fbd487;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 85.66% 72.43%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.81) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 58.69%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 46.71% 90.11%, rgba(247, 231, 206, 0.806) 0%, rgba(247, 231, 206, 0) 49.66%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 85.66% 72.43%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.8096) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 58.69%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 46.71% 90.11%, oklch(from #f7e7ce l c h / 0.8058) 0%, rgb(from #f7e7ce r g b / 0) 49.66%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.22:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 12.70:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding medium: ~7px bands at 1440px — add grain 13 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ffbf00 0%, #ffc22e 7.14%, #fec544 14.29%, #fec855 21.43%, #fdcb63 28.57%, #fdce70 35.71%, #fcd17c 42.86%, #fbd487 50%, #fbd792 57.14%, #fada9d 64.29%, #fadca7 71.43%, #f9dfb1 78.57%, #f8e2bb 85.71%, #f8e4c4 92.86%, #f7e7ce 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #f7e7ce 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ffbf00] to-[#f7e7ce]
svg
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1440" height="600" viewBox="0 0 1440 600"><defs><linearGradient id="bs-gradient" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="210" y1="-210" x2="1230" y2="810"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="#ffbf00"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#ffc22e"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#fec544"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#fec855"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#fdcb63"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#fdce70"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#fcd17c"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#fbd487"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#fbd792"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#fada9d"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#fadca7"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#f9dfb1"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#f8e2bb"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#f8e4c4"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#f7e7ce"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "amber-to-champagne": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.749,
            0
          ],
          "hex": "#ffbf00"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.969,
            0.906,
            0.808
          ],
          "hex": "#f7e7ce"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #f7e7ce 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "amber-to-champagne",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.216,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 12.704,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Amber to Champagne, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

More from Amber

mcpConnect your agent to the gradient engine
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared gradients endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — make_gradient returns CSS with the interpolation space, Tailwind v4, SVG, a PNG URL, a DTCG token and the contrast report in one call; brand_gradients derives the whole contact sheet from a brand or a palette. Read-only, no key. Every gradient is a /gradients/new/… link: open it, refine, paste it back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-gradients https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
try this prompt

make a amber to champagne hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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Machine-readable: gradients.md