Colour to colour

Blush Pink to Sky Blue gradient

Blush Pink (#e8b4b8) into Sky Blue (#87ceeb) — 148° 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 oklch: ΔH 148° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.

Blush Pink → Sky Blue
black text · worst 11.55:1 · AA
white 1.74 failsblack 11.55 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 1.74 failsblack 11.62 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #e8b4b8 0%, #87ceeb 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 1.74 failsblack 11.55 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e8b4b8 0%, #87ceeb 100%)

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

sRGB27%
OKLab27%
OKLCH85%

Eased and mesh

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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 1.74 failsblack 11.55 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e8b4b8 0%, #e8b4b9 8.28%, #e7b3be 16.03%, #e6b3c5 23.35%, #e3b3ce 30.32%, #ddb4d8 37.03%, #d4b6e2 43.56%, #c9b9eb 50%, #bcbdf2 56.44%, #aec1f5 62.97%, #a1c6f5 69.68%, #96c9f2 76.65%, #8eccef 83.97%, #89cdec 91.72%, #87ceeb 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 1.77 failsblack 11.62 AAbanding low
css
background-color: #bec2d2;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 42.39% 72.69%, rgba(135, 206, 235, 0.843) 0%, rgba(135, 206, 235, 0) 48.87%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 79.83% 51.92%, rgba(232, 180, 184, 0.853) 0%, rgba(232, 180, 184, 0) 49.27%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 42.39% 72.69%, oklch(from #87ceeb l c h / 0.8433) 0%, rgb(from #87ceeb r g b / 0) 48.87%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 79.83% 51.92%, oklch(from #e8b4b8 l c h / 0.8528) 0%, rgb(from #e8b4b8 r g b / 0) 49.27%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.74:1 at 99% (fails AA); black ink: worst 11.55:1 at 24% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~15px bands at 1440px — add grain 31 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #e8b4b8 0%, #e7b3bf 7.14%, #e5b3c7 14.29%, #e2b3cf 21.43%, #ddb4d7 28.57%, #d8b5df 35.71%, #d1b7e5 42.86%, #c9b9eb 50%, #c1bcf0 57.14%, #b7bff3 64.29%, #aec2f5 71.43%, #a3c5f5 78.57%, #99c8f3 85.71%, #90cbf0 92.86%, #87ceeb 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e8b4b8 0%, #87ceeb 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#e8b4b8] to-[#87ceeb]
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="#e7b3bf"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#e5b3c7"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e2b3cf"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ddb4d7"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#d8b5df"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#d1b7e5"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#c9b9eb"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#c1bcf0"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#b7bff3"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#aec2f5"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#a3c5f5"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#99c8f3"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#90cbf0"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#87ceeb"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "blush-pink-to-skyblue": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.91,
            0.706,
            0.722
          ],
          "hex": "#e8b4b8"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.529,
            0.808,
            0.922
          ],
          "hex": "#87ceeb"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e8b4b8 0%, #87ceeb 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "blush-pink-to-skyblue",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.737,
            "at": 0.9939,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 11.548,
            "at": 0.2381,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Blush Pink to Sky Blue, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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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
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