Colour to colour

Coral to Burlywood gradient

Coral (#ff7f50) into Burlywood (#deb887) — 33° 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.

Coral → Burlywood
black text · worst 8.40:1 · AA
white 1.86 failsblack 8.40 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 1.86 failsblack 8.40 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #deb887 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 1.86 failsblack 8.40 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ff7f50 0%, #deb887 100%)

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

sRGB63%
OKLab63%
OKLCH63%

Eased and mesh

Aa

Eased (soft)

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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 1.86 failsblack 8.40 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #ff8051 8.28%, #fe8353 16.03%, #fc8757 23.35%, #fa8c5c 30.32%, #f79161 37.03%, #f49767 43.56%, #f09d6d 50%, #eda372 56.44%, #e9a978 62.97%, #e6ae7d 69.68%, #e3b281 76.65%, #e0b584 83.97%, #dfb786 91.72%, #deb887 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 2.07 failsblack 9.54 AAbanding low
css
background-color: #f09d6d;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 87.33% 10.13%, rgba(255, 127, 80, 0.81) 0%, rgba(255, 127, 80, 0) 51.7%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 48.29% 5.77%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0.702) 0%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0) 46.13%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 87.33% 10.13%, oklch(from #ff7f50 l c h / 0.8104) 0%, rgb(from #ff7f50 r g b / 0) 51.7%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 48.29% 5.77%, oklch(from #deb887 l c h / 0.7021) 0%, rgb(from #deb887 r g b / 0) 46.13%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.86:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.40:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~25px bands at 1440px — add grain 48 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ff7f50 0%, #fd8454 7.14%, #fb8859 14.29%, #f98d5d 21.43%, #f79161 28.57%, #f59565 35.71%, #f39969 42.86%, #f09d6d 50%, #eea170 57.14%, #eca574 64.29%, #e9a978 71.43%, #e6ad7c 78.57%, #e4b180 85.71%, #e1b483 92.86%, #deb887 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #deb887 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ff7f50] to-[#deb887]
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="#ff7f50"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#fd8454"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#fb8859"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#f98d5d"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#f79161"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#f59565"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#f39969"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#f09d6d"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#eea170"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#eca574"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#e9a978"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#e6ad7c"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#e4b180"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#e1b483"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#deb887"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "coral-to-burlywood": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.498,
            0.314
          ],
          "hex": "#ff7f50"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.871,
            0.722,
            0.529
          ],
          "hex": "#deb887"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff7f50 0%, #deb887 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "coral-to-burlywood",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.856,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 8.404,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Coral to Burlywood, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

More from Coral

mcpConnect your agent to the gradient engine
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
try this prompt

make a coral to burlywood hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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Machine-readable: gradients.md