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Amber to Salmon gradient
Amber (#ffbf00) into Salmon (#fa8072) — 56° 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.
OKLab and OKLCH, side by side
OKLab
Open in maker →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.
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #fa8072 100%)
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.
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ffbf00 0%, #fa8072 100%)
And the sRGB line most tools draw, for comparison — the number is the chroma that survives at the dullest point.
Eased and mesh
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.
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #ffbe09 8.28%, #ffbc1a 16.03%, #ffb829 23.35%, #ffb336 30.32%, #feae41 37.03%, #fea74b 43.56%, #fda154 50%, #fd9a5c 56.44%, #fc9362 62.97%, #fb8d68 69.68%, #fb886c 76.65%, #fa846f 83.97%, #fa8171 91.72%, #fa8072 100%)
Mesh
Open in maker →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.
background-color: #fda154; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 88.65% 4.4%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.752) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 50.63%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 44.05% 17.77%, rgba(250, 128, 114, 0.708) 0%, rgba(250, 128, 114, 0) 50.96%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 88.65% 4.4%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.7516) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 50.63%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 44.05% 17.77%, oklch(from #fa8072 l c h / 0.708) 0%, rgb(from #fa8072 r g b / 0) 50.96%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.65:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.39:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~13px bands at 1440px — add grain 26 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ffbf00 0%, #ffbb1e 7.14%, #ffb72d 14.29%, #feb238 21.43%, #feae41 28.57%, #feaa48 35.71%, #fea54e 42.86%, #fda154 50%, #fd9c59 57.14%, #fc985e 64.29%, #fc9363 71.43%, #fc8e67 78.57%, #fb8a6b 85.71%, #fb856f 92.86%, #fa8072 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #fa8072 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ffbf00] to-[#fa8072]
<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="#ffbb1e"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#ffb72d"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#feb238"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#feae41"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#feaa48"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#fea54e"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#fda154"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#fd9c59"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#fc985e"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#fc9363"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#fc8e67"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#fb8a6b"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#fb856f"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#fa8072"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"amber-to-salmon": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.749,
0
],
"hex": "#ffbf00"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.98,
0.502,
0.447
],
"hex": "#fa8072"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffbf00 0%, #fa8072 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "amber-to-salmon",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.653,
"at": 0.0085,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 8.395,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Amber to Salmon, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Amber
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-gradients https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
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