Colour to colour
Burgundy to Steel Blue gradient
Burgundy (#800020) into Steel Blue (#4682b4) — 133° 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, #800020 0%, #4682b4 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, #800020 0%, #4682b4 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, #800020 0%, #800622 8.28%, #801429 16.03%, #7f2232 23.35%, #7d2f3e 30.32%, #7b3b4c 37.03%, #78475a 43.56%, #74536a 50%, #6e5d79 56.44%, #676788 62.97%, #5f7096 69.68%, #5777a2 76.65%, #4f7dac 83.97%, #4881b2 91.72%, #4682b4 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: #74536a; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 93.62% 98.64%, rgba(128, 0, 32, 0.812) 0%, rgba(128, 0, 32, 0) 54.02%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 13.22% 91.54%, rgba(70, 130, 180, 0.835) 0%, rgba(70, 130, 180, 0) 46.99%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 93.62% 98.64%, oklch(from #800020 l c h / 0.8122) 0%, rgb(from #800020 r g b / 0) 54.02%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 13.22% 91.54%, oklch(from #4682b4 l c h / 0.8352) 0%, rgb(from #4682b4 r g b / 0) 46.99%);
Report
- white ink: worst 4.11:1 at 100% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 1.94:1 at 0% (fails AA) → use white text.
- Body text fails AA everywhere on this gradient; large text (≥24px / 19px bold) is fine. Add a scrim or lower the chroma for body copy.
- Banding medium: ~10px bands at 1440px — add grain 20 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #800020 0%, #7f182b 7.14%, #7e2636 14.29%, #7d3141 21.43%, #7b3a4b 28.57%, #794355 35.71%, #774b5f 42.86%, #74536a 50%, #705a74 57.14%, #6c617f 64.29%, #676889 71.43%, #616e94 78.57%, #5a759e 85.71%, #517ca9 92.86%, #4682b4 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #800020 0%, #4682b4 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#800020] to-[#4682b4]
<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="#800020"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#7f182b"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#7e2636"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#7d3141"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#7b3a4b"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#794355"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#774b5f"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#74536a"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#705a74"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#6c617f"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#676889"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#616e94"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#5a759e"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#517ca9"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#4682b4"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"burgundy-to-steelblue": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.502,
0,
0.125
],
"hex": "#800020"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.275,
0.51,
0.706
],
"hex": "#4682b4"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #800020 0%, #4682b4 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "burgundy-to-steelblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 4.108,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 1.939,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Burgundy to Steel Blue, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Burgundy
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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Machine-readable: gradients.md