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Burlywood to Salmon gradient

Burlywood (#deb887) into Salmon (#fa8072) — 45° 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 → Salmon
black text · worst 8.39:1 · AA
white 1.86 failsblack 8.39 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 1.86 failsblack 8.39 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #fa8072 100%)
Aa

OKLCH (shorter hue)

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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 1.86 failsblack 8.39 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #deb887 0%, #fa8072 100%)

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

sRGB68%
OKLab68%
OKLCH68%

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 1.86 failsblack 8.39 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #dfb787 8.28%, #e0b586 16.03%, #e2b284 23.35%, #e5ae83 30.32%, #e8a981 37.03%, #eba37f 43.56%, #ee9d7c 50%, #f1987a 56.44%, #f39278 62.97%, #f68c76 69.68%, #f78774 76.65%, #f98373 83.97%, #fa8172 91.72%, #fa8072 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 2.03 failsblack 9.58 AAbanding low
css
background-color: #ee9d7c;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.16% 22.91%, rgba(250, 128, 114, 0.788) 0%, rgba(250, 128, 114, 0) 46.19%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 16.94% 46.88%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0.763) 0%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0) 46.26%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.16% 22.91%, oklch(from #fa8072 l c h / 0.7881) 0%, rgb(from #fa8072 r g b / 0) 46.19%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 16.94% 46.88%, oklch(from #deb887 l c h / 0.7629) 0%, rgb(from #deb887 r g b / 0) 46.26%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.86:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.39:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~26px bands at 1440px — add grain 48 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #deb887 0%, #e1b485 7.14%, #e3b184 14.29%, #e5ad82 21.43%, #e8a981 28.57%, #eaa57f 35.71%, #eca17e 42.86%, #ee9d7c 50%, #f0997b 57.14%, #f29579 64.29%, #f39178 71.43%, #f58d76 78.57%, #f78975 85.71%, #f88473 92.86%, #fa8072 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #fa8072 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#deb887] to-[#fa8072]
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="#e1b485"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#e3b184"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e5ad82"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#e8a981"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#eaa57f"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#eca17e"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ee9d7c"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#f0997b"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#f29579"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#f39178"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#f58d76"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#f78975"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#f88473"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#fa8072"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "burlywood-to-salmon": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.871,
            0.722,
            0.529
          ],
          "hex": "#deb887"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.98,
            0.502,
            0.447
          ],
          "hex": "#fa8072"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #deb887 0%, #fa8072 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "burlywood-to-salmon",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.856,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 8.395,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Burlywood to Salmon, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

More from Burlywood

mcpConnect your agent to the gradient engine
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
try this prompt

make a burlywood to salmon hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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