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Amber to Ivory gradient

Amber (#ffbf00) into Ivory (#fffff0) — 23° 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 → Ivory
black text · worst 12.70:1 · AA
white 1.01 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 1.01 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #fffff0 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 1.01 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ffbf00 0%, #fffff0 100%)

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

sRGB20%
OKLab20%
OKLCH20%

Eased and mesh

Aa

Eased (soft)

Open in maker →

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 1.01 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #ffc014 8.28%, #ffc32d 16.03%, #ffc744 23.35%, #ffcd5b 30.32%, #ffd370 37.03%, #ffd985 43.56%, #ffe09a 50%, #ffe7ad 56.44%, #ffedbf 62.97%, #fff3cf 69.68%, #fff8dc 76.65%, #fffce7 83.97%, #fffeee 91.72%, #fffff0 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 1.22 failsblack 16.38 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #ffe09a;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 39.16% 89.18%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.861) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 51.35%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 71.43% 64.37%, rgba(255, 255, 240, 0.801) 0%, rgba(255, 255, 240, 0) 52.83%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 39.16% 89.18%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.8605) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 51.35%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 71.43% 64.37%, oklch(from #fffff0 l c h / 0.8007) 0%, rgb(from #fffff0 r g b / 0) 52.83%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.01:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 12.70:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
  • White text disappears completely at 100% (1.00:1 crossing).
  • Banding medium: ~6px bands at 1440px — add grain 10 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ffbf00 0%, #ffc434 7.14%, #ffc94c 14.29%, #ffce5f 21.43%, #ffd26f 28.57%, #ffd77e 35.71%, #ffdc8c 42.86%, #ffe09a 50%, #ffe5a7 57.14%, #ffe9b3 64.29%, #ffeec0 71.43%, #fff2cc 78.57%, #fff6d8 85.71%, #fffbe4 92.86%, #fffff0 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #fffff0 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ffbf00] to-[#fffff0]
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="#ffc434"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#ffc94c"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ffce5f"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ffd26f"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffd77e"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffdc8c"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffe09a"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffe5a7"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffe9b3"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ffeec0"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#fff2cc"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#fff6d8"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#fffbe4"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#fffff0"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "amber-to-ivory": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.749,
            0
          ],
          "hex": "#ffbf00"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            1,
            0.941
          ],
          "hex": "#fffff0"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #fffff0 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "amber-to-ivory",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.009,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 12.704,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Amber to Ivory, 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 ivory hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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Machine-readable: gradients.md