Colour to colour
Coral to Amber gradient
Coral (#ff7f50) into Amber (#ffbf00) — 44° 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.
OKLab and OKLCH, side by side
OKLab
Open in maker →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.
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #ffbf00 100%)
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.
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ff7f50 0%, #ffbf00 100%)
And the sRGB line most tools draw, for comparison — the number is the chroma that survives at the dullest point.
Eased and mesh
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.
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #ff8050 8.28%, #ff834e 16.03%, #ff874c 23.35%, #ff8d49 30.32%, #ff9346 37.03%, #ff9941 43.56%, #ffa03c 50%, #ffa735 56.44%, #ffad2e 62.97%, #ffb325 69.68%, #ffb81c 76.65%, #ffbc11 83.97%, #ffbe05 91.72%, #ffbf00 100%)
Mesh
Open in maker →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.
background-color: #ffa03c; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 28.92% 81.9%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.855) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 54.93%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.04% 47.55%, rgba(255, 127, 80, 0.739) 0%, rgba(255, 127, 80, 0) 58.94%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 28.92% 81.9%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.8549) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 54.93%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.04% 47.55%, oklch(from #ff7f50 l c h / 0.7393) 0%, rgb(from #ff7f50 r g b / 0) 58.94%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.65:1 at 99% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.40:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~18px bands at 1440px — add grain 36 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ff7f50 0%, #ff844e 7.14%, #ff894b 14.29%, #ff8e49 21.43%, #ff9246 28.57%, #ff9743 35.71%, #ff9c3f 42.86%, #ffa03c 50%, #ffa537 57.14%, #ffa933 64.29%, #ffae2d 71.43%, #ffb227 78.57%, #ffb61f 85.71%, #ffbb14 92.86%, #ffbf00 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #ffbf00 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ff7f50] to-[#ffbf00]
<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="#ff7f50"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#ff844e"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#ff894b"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ff8e49"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ff9246"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ff9743"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ff9c3f"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffa03c"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffa537"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffa933"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ffae2d"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ffb227"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ffb61f"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ffbb14"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffbf00"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"coral-to-amber": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.498,
0.314
],
"hex": "#ff7f50"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.749,
0
],
"hex": "#ffbf00"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #ffbf00 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "coral-to-amber",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.653,
"at": 0.9943,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 8.404,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Coral to Amber, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Coral
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-gradients https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
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