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Amber to Coral gradient

Amber (#ffbf00) into Coral (#ff7f50) — 44° 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 → Coral
black text · worst 8.40:1 · AA
white 1.65 failsblack 8.40 AAbanding high

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 1.65 failsblack 8.40 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #ff7f50 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 1.65 failsblack 8.40 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ffbf00 0%, #ff7f50 100%)

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

sRGB96%
OKLab92%
OKLCH97%

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 1.65 failsblack 8.40 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #ffbe05 8.28%, #ffbc11 16.03%, #ffb81c 23.35%, #ffb325 30.32%, #ffad2e 37.03%, #ffa735 43.56%, #ffa03c 50%, #ff9941 56.44%, #ff9346 62.97%, #ff8d49 69.68%, #ff874c 76.65%, #ff834e 83.97%, #ff8050 91.72%, #ff7f50 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 1.98 failsblack 8.98 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #ffa03c;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.95% 4.14%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.727) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 59.16%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 12.25% 2.75%, rgba(255, 127, 80, 0.725) 0%, rgba(255, 127, 80, 0) 58.21%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.95% 4.14%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.7266) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 59.16%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 12.25% 2.75%, oklch(from #ff7f50 l c h / 0.7245) 0%, rgb(from #ff7f50 r g b / 0) 58.21%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.65:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.40:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~18px bands at 1440px — add grain 36 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ffbf00 0%, #ffbb14 7.14%, #ffb61f 14.29%, #ffb227 21.43%, #ffae2d 28.57%, #ffa933 35.71%, #ffa537 42.86%, #ffa03c 50%, #ff9c3f 57.14%, #ff9743 64.29%, #ff9246 71.43%, #ff8e49 78.57%, #ff894b 85.71%, #ff844e 92.86%, #ff7f50 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #ff7f50 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ffbf00] to-[#ff7f50]
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="#ffbb14"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#ffb61f"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ffb227"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ffae2d"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffa933"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffa537"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffa03c"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ff9c3f"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ff9743"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ff9246"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ff8e49"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ff894b"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ff844e"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ff7f50"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "amber-to-coral": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.749,
            0
          ],
          "hex": "#ffbf00"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.498,
            0.314
          ],
          "hex": "#ff7f50"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #ff7f50 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "amber-to-coral",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.653,
            "at": 0.0084,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 8.404,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Amber to Coral, 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 coral hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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Machine-readable: gradients.md