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Burlywood to Charcoal gradient
Burlywood (#deb887) into Charcoal (#36454f) — 164° 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 164° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.
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, #deb887 0%, #36454f 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, #deb887 0%, #36454f 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 oklch shorter hue, #deb887 0%, #dab785 8.28%, #d0b480 16.03%, #bfaf7b 23.35%, #aaa876 30.32%, #929f74 37.03%, #7b9472 43.56%, #658871 50%, #557a6e 56.44%, #496c6a 62.97%, #416063 69.68%, #3c555c 76.65%, #394c55 83.97%, #374751 91.72%, #36454f 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: #867d6c; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 92.13% 39.65%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0.88) 0%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0) 52.23%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.79% 48.51%, rgba(54, 69, 79, 0.887) 0%, rgba(54, 69, 79, 0) 53.31%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 92.13% 39.65%, oklch(from #deb887 l c h / 0.8795) 0%, rgb(from #deb887 r g b / 0) 52.23%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.79% 48.51%, oklch(from #36454f l c h / 0.8872) 0%, rgb(from #36454f r g b / 0) 53.31%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.86:1 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: ~9px bands at 1440px — add grain 17 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #deb887 0%, #cbb37f 7.14%, #b8ad79 14.29%, #a6a676 21.43%, #94a074 28.57%, #839873 35.71%, #739072 42.86%, #658871 50%, #5a7f6f 57.14%, #50756d 64.29%, #486c69 71.43%, #426264 78.57%, #3e585e 85.71%, #3a4e57 92.86%, #36454f 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #deb887 0%, #36454f 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#deb887] to-[#36454f]
<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="#deb887"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#cbb37f"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#b8ad79"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#a6a676"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#94a074"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#839873"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#739072"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#658871"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#5a7f6f"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#50756d"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#486c69"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#426264"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#3e585e"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#3a4e57"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#36454f"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"burlywood-to-charcoal": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.871,
0.722,
0.529
],
"hex": "#deb887"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.212,
0.271,
0.31
],
"hex": "#36454f"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #deb887 0%, #36454f 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "burlywood-to-charcoal",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.856,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 2.121,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Burlywood to Charcoal, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Burlywood
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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