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Blush Pink to Charcoal gradient

Blush Pink (#e8b4b8) into Charcoal (#36454f) — 136° 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.

Blush Pink → Charcoal
black text · worst 2.12:1 · fails
white 1.80 failsblack 2.12 failsbanding 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 1.80 failsblack 2.12 failsbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #e8b4b8 0%, #36454f 100%)
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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 1.80 failsblack 2.12 failsbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e8b4b8 0%, #36454f 100%)

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

sRGB30%
OKLab30%
OKLCH60%

Eased and mesh

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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 1.80 failsblack 2.12 failsbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #e8b4b8 0%, #e5b2b6 8.28%, #ddaeb2 16.03%, #d2a6ab 23.35%, #c29da2 30.32%, #b19298 37.03%, #9f878d 43.56%, #8b7b82 50%, #796f77 56.44%, #67646c 62.97%, #575a63 69.68%, #4a515b 76.65%, #3f4b54 83.97%, #384750 91.72%, #36454f 100%)
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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 2.55 failsblack 3.37 AA largebanding high
css
background-color: #8b7b82;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 68.79% 92.92%, rgba(232, 180, 184, 0.751) 0%, rgba(232, 180, 184, 0) 51.24%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 48.24% 22.62%, rgba(54, 69, 79, 0.829) 0%, rgba(54, 69, 79, 0) 50.01%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 68.79% 92.92%, oklch(from #e8b4b8 l c h / 0.7511) 0%, rgb(from #e8b4b8 r g b / 0) 51.24%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 48.24% 22.62%, oklch(from #36454f l c h / 0.8289) 0%, rgb(from #36454f r g b / 0) 50.01%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.80:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 2.12:1 at 100% (fails AA) → use black text.
  • Neither ink passes AA at the worst point — treat as decorative or add a scrim (rgba(0,0,0,.35) typically lifts white ink past 4:1).
  • Banding medium: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 16 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #e8b4b8 0%, #daacb0 7.14%, #cda3a8 14.29%, #bf9ba0 21.43%, #b29399 28.57%, #a58b91 35.71%, #988389 42.86%, #8b7b82 50%, #7f737a 57.14%, #726b73 64.29%, #66636c 71.43%, #5a5c64 78.57%, #4e545d 85.71%, #424c56 92.86%, #36454f 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #e8b4b8 0%, #36454f 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#e8b4b8] to-[#36454f]
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="#e8b4b8"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#daacb0"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#cda3a8"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#bf9ba0"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#b29399"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#a58b91"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#988389"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#8b7b82"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#7f737a"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#726b73"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#66636c"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#5a5c64"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#4e545d"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#424c56"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#36454f"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "blush-pink-to-charcoal": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.91,
            0.706,
            0.722
          ],
          "hex": "#e8b4b8"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.212,
            0.271,
            0.31
          ],
          "hex": "#36454f"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #e8b4b8 0%, #36454f 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "blush-pink-to-charcoal",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.802,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 2.121,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Blush Pink to Charcoal, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

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