# By Design gradient

By Design is a blue gradient from uiGradients (MIT), rendered in OKLab.

### By Design

- Slug: `by-design` · Page: https://brandsweets.com/gradients/by-design
- Stops: #009fff, #ec2f4b · angle 90° · source uigradients
- Families: blue, red · Moods: vivid
- CSS: `linear-gradient(90deg in oklab, #009fff 0%, #ec2f4b 100%)`
- Tailwind: `bg-linear-to-r/oklab from-[#009fff] to-[#ec2f4b]`
- Contrast (worst point): white 2.83:1 fail · black 5.06:1 AA · banding medium
- Maker: https://brandsweets.com/gradients/new/v1.009fff-ec2f4b?a=90
- Colors: https://brandsweets.com/colors/009fff, https://brandsweets.com/colors/ec2f4b

## The same stops in other spaces

- sRGB (the source's own look): `linear-gradient(90deg in srgb, #009fff 0%, #ec2f4b 100%)`
- OKLCH shorter hue: `linear-gradient(90deg in oklch shorter hue, #009fff 0%, #ec2f4b 100%)`

Family pages: https://brandsweets.com/gradients/blue, https://brandsweets.com/gradients/red

## Gradient maker

Every maker URL is the gradient's state: `/gradients/new/v1.<hex>-<hex>[_pos]?a=135&in=oklch&hue=shorter&e=soft&g=8`. Hand one to a human, let them refine, and read the link they return.

## Connect an agent

Point any MCP client at the BrandSweets gradients endpoint for the same engine and corpus:

- Endpoint: https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
- Tools: `make_gradient` (2–5 colours → CSS with the interpolation space, Tailwind v4, SVG, PNG URL, DTCG token + the contrast/banding/gamut report), `brand_gradients` (brand slug or palette → brand gradient, hero, button, variants).
- Resource: `gradients://corpus` — the whole bundled corpus as JSON.