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Burlywood to Powder Blue gradient

Burlywood (#deb887) into Powder Blue (#b0e0e6) — 132° 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.

Burlywood → Powder Blue
black text · worst 11.31:1 · AA
white 1.43 failsblack 11.31 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 1.43 failsblack 11.31 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #b0e0e6 100%)
Aa

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 1.43 failsblack 11.31 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #deb887 0%, #b0e0e6 100%)

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

sRGB40%
OKLab37%
OKLCH78%

Eased and mesh

Aa

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 1.43 failsblack 11.31 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #ddb988 8.28%, #dcba8d 16.03%, #dabd93 23.35%, #d7c19b 30.32%, #d3c4a4 37.03%, #cfc9ae 43.56%, #cacdb8 50%, #c5d1c2 56.44%, #c0d5cb 62.97%, #bbd9d4 69.68%, #b7dcdb 76.65%, #b3dee1 83.97%, #b1dfe5 91.72%, #b0e0e6 100%)
Aa

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 1.61 failsblack 11.72 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #cacdb8;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 12.21% 10.9%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0.744) 0%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0) 54.33%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 2.16% 66.67%, rgba(176, 224, 230, 0.761) 0%, rgba(176, 224, 230, 0) 54%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 12.21% 10.9%, oklch(from #deb887 l c h / 0.7438) 0%, rgb(from #deb887 r g b / 0) 54.33%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 2.16% 66.67%, oklch(from #b0e0e6 l c h / 0.7614) 0%, rgb(from #b0e0e6 r g b / 0) 54%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.43:1 at 99% (fails AA); black ink: worst 11.31:1 at 0% (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, #deb887 0%, #dbbb8e 7.14%, #d9be95 14.29%, #d6c19c 21.43%, #d3c4a3 28.57%, #d0c7aa 35.71%, #cdcab1 42.86%, #cacdb8 50%, #c7d0be 57.14%, #c3d2c5 64.29%, #c0d5cc 71.43%, #bcd8d2 78.57%, #b8dbd9 85.71%, #b4dddf 92.86%, #b0e0e6 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #b0e0e6 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#deb887] to-[#b0e0e6]
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="#deb887"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#dbbb8e"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#d9be95"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#d6c19c"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#d3c4a3"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#d0c7aa"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#cdcab1"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#cacdb8"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#c7d0be"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#c3d2c5"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#c0d5cc"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#bcd8d2"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#b8dbd9"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#b4dddf"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#b0e0e6"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "burlywood-to-powderblue": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.871,
            0.722,
            0.529
          ],
          "hex": "#deb887"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.69,
            0.878,
            0.902
          ],
          "hex": "#b0e0e6"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #b0e0e6 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "burlywood-to-powderblue",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.432,
            "at": 0.9916,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 11.312,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Burlywood to Powder Blue, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

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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
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