Colour to colour

Chartreuse to Hot Pink gradient

Chartreuse (#7fff00) into Hot Pink (#ff69b4) — 144° 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 144° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.

Chartreuse → Hot Pink
black text · worst 7.79:1 · AA
white 1.30 failsblack 7.79 AAbanding medium

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 1.30 failsblack 7.93 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #7fff00 0%, #ff69b4 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 1.30 failsblack 7.79 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #7fff00 0%, #ff69b4 100%)

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

sRGB36%
OKLab30%
OKLCH62%

Eased and mesh

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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 1.29 failsblack 7.80 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #7fff00 0%, #8afc00 8.28%, #a6f400 16.03%, #c6e700 23.35%, #e0d800 30.32%, #f5c700 37.03%, #ffb400 43.56%, #ffa62e 50%, #ff9959 56.44%, #ff8d70 62.97%, #ff8083 69.68%, #ff7395 76.65%, #ff69a5 83.97%, #ff69b0 91.72%, #ff69b4 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 1.80 failsblack 9.89 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #d6be86;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 24.87% 98.79%, rgba(127, 255, 0, 0.766) 0%, rgba(127, 255, 0, 0) 55.16%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.45% 50.16%, rgba(255, 105, 180, 0.825) 0%, rgba(255, 105, 180, 0) 58.15%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 24.87% 98.79%, oklch(from #7fff00 l c h / 0.7661) 0%, rgb(from #7fff00 r g b / 0) 55.16%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.45% 50.16%, oklch(from #ff69b4 l c h / 0.8253) 0%, rgb(from #ff69b4 r g b / 0) 58.15%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.30:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 7.79:1 at 94% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding medium: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 16 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
  • 59/64 samples left sRGB by more than 5% and were gamut-mapped (oklch shorter); expect slight hue drift there.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #7fff00 0%, #b0f100 7.14%, #cfe200 14.29%, #e4d500 21.43%, #f4c800 28.57%, #ffbb00 35.71%, #ffae00 42.86%, #ffa62e 50%, #ff9d4e 57.14%, #ff9562 64.29%, #ff8c71 71.43%, #ff8280 78.57%, #ff788f 85.71%, #ff6ba0 92.86%, #ff69b4 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #7fff00 0%, #ff69b4 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#7fff00] to-[#ff69b4]
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="#7fff00"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#b0f100"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#cfe200"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e4d500"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#f4c800"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffbb00"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffae00"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffa62e"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ff9d4e"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ff9562"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ff8c71"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ff8280"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ff788f"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ff6ba0"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ff69b4"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "chartreuse-to-hotpink": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.498,
            1,
            0
          ],
          "hex": "#7fff00"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.412,
            0.706
          ],
          "hex": "#ff69b4"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #7fff00 0%, #ff69b4 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "chartreuse-to-hotpink",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.296,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 7.794,
            "at": 0.9365,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Chartreuse to Hot Pink, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
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