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Cadet Blue to Bronze gradient

Cadet Blue (#5f9ea0) into Bronze (#cd7f32) — 137° 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.

Cadet Blue → Bronze
black text · worst 6.65:1 · AA
white 3.04 AA largeblack 6.65 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 3.04 AA largeblack 6.65 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #5f9ea0 0%, #cd7f32 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 2.97 failsblack 6.65 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #5f9ea0 0%, #cd7f32 100%)

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

sRGB40%
OKLab32%
OKLCH66%

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 3.04 AA largeblack 6.65 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #5f9ea0 0%, #619e9f 8.28%, #689d9b 16.03%, #719c96 23.35%, #7c9a8e 30.32%, #879886 37.03%, #93957c 43.56%, #9e9272 50%, #a98e67 56.44%, #b38b5b 62.97%, #bc8750 69.68%, #c38445 76.65%, #c8823c 83.97%, #cc8035 91.72%, #cd7f32 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 3.08 AA largeblack 6.57 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #9e9272;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 7.29% 59.32%, rgba(205, 127, 50, 0.752) 0%, rgba(205, 127, 50, 0) 47.82%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 39.52% 22.84%, rgba(95, 158, 160, 0.858) 0%, rgba(95, 158, 160, 0) 55.29%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 7.29% 59.32%, oklch(from #cd7f32 l c h / 0.7516) 0%, rgb(from #cd7f32 r g b / 0) 47.82%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 39.52% 22.84%, oklch(from #5f9ea0 l c h / 0.8583) 0%, rgb(from #5f9ea0 r g b / 0) 55.29%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 3.04:1 at 3% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 6.65:1 at 99% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~13px bands at 1440px — add grain 27 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #5f9ea0 0%, #6a9d9a 7.14%, #749b93 14.29%, #7e998d 21.43%, #879886 28.57%, #8f9680 35.71%, #979479 42.86%, #9e9272 50%, #a6906a 57.14%, #ad8d63 64.29%, #b38b5b 71.43%, #ba8852 78.57%, #c18549 85.71%, #c7823e 92.86%, #cd7f32 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #5f9ea0 0%, #cd7f32 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#5f9ea0] to-[#cd7f32]
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="#5f9ea0"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#6a9d9a"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#749b93"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#7e998d"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#879886"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#8f9680"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#979479"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#9e9272"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#a6906a"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ad8d63"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#b38b5b"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ba8852"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#c18549"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#c7823e"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#cd7f32"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "cadetblue-to-bronze": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.373,
            0.62,
            0.627
          ],
          "hex": "#5f9ea0"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.804,
            0.498,
            0.196
          ],
          "hex": "#cd7f32"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #5f9ea0 0%, #cd7f32 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "cadetblue-to-bronze",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 3.037,
            "at": 0.0258,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 6.651,
            "at": 0.9942,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Cadet Blue to Bronze, 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
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-gradients https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
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make a cadet blue to bronze hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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