Colour to colour

Champagne to Light Sky Blue gradient

Champagne (#f7e7ce) into Light Sky Blue (#87cefa) — 158° 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 158° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.

Champagne → Light Sky Blue
black text · worst 12.24:1 · AA
white 1.22 failsblack 12.24 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 1.22 failsblack 12.24 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #f7e7ce 0%, #87cefa 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 1.22 failsblack 12.24 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f7e7ce 0%, #87cefa 100%)

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

sRGB18%
OKLab14%
OKLCH57%

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 1.22 failsblack 12.24 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f7e7ce 0%, #f6e7cd 8.28%, #f3e6c9 16.03%, #ece6c5 23.35%, #e3e5c1 30.32%, #d6e5bf 37.03%, #c6e5c0 43.56%, #b3e4c6 50%, #a0e3d0 56.44%, #91e0db 62.97%, #87dce6 69.68%, #83d7ef 76.65%, #84d2f5 83.97%, #86cff9 91.72%, #87cefa 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 1.31 failsblack 13.68 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #c2dce6;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 54.19% 11.32%, rgba(135, 206, 250, 0.879) 0%, rgba(135, 206, 250, 0) 56.84%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 52.83% 58.46%, rgba(247, 231, 206, 0.878) 0%, rgba(247, 231, 206, 0) 56.94%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 54.19% 11.32%, oklch(from #87cefa l c h / 0.8794) 0%, rgb(from #87cefa r g b / 0) 56.84%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 52.83% 58.46%, oklch(from #f7e7ce l c h / 0.8776) 0%, rgb(from #f7e7ce r g b / 0) 56.94%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.22:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 12.24:1 at 100% (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, #f7e7ce 0%, #f1e6c8 7.14%, #eae6c3 14.29%, #e1e5c0 21.43%, #d7e5bf 28.57%, #cce5bf 35.71%, #c0e5c2 42.86%, #b3e4c6 50%, #a6e3cc 57.14%, #9be2d4 64.29%, #90e0dc 71.43%, #88dce4 78.57%, #84d8ec 85.71%, #83d4f4 92.86%, #87cefa 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f7e7ce 0%, #87cefa 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#f7e7ce] to-[#87cefa]
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="#f7e7ce"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#f1e6c8"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#eae6c3"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e1e5c0"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#d7e5bf"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#cce5bf"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#c0e5c2"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#b3e4c6"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#a6e3cc"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#9be2d4"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#90e0dc"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#88dce4"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#84d8ec"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#83d4f4"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#87cefa"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "champagne-to-lightskyblue": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.969,
            0.906,
            0.808
          ],
          "hex": "#f7e7ce"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.529,
            0.808,
            0.98
          ],
          "hex": "#87cefa"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f7e7ce 0%, #87cefa 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "champagne-to-lightskyblue",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.216,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 12.239,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Champagne to Light Sky Blue, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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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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