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Cornflower Blue to Amber gradient
Cornflower Blue (#6495ed) into Amber (#ffbf00) — 177° 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 177° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.
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, #6495ed 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, #6495ed 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 oklch shorter hue, #6495ed 0%, #5f97ee 8.28%, #4f9dee 16.03%, #2ea6ed 23.35%, #00b2e6 30.32%, #00bdd7 37.03%, #00c7c2 43.56%, #00cfa6 50%, #50d385 56.44%, #8ad262 62.97%, #b5ce3f 69.68%, #d5c91d 76.65%, #ecc400 83.97%, #fac000 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: #b3b0a5; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 96% 12.51%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.758) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 47.01%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 2.81% 65.73%, rgba(100, 149, 237, 0.824) 0%, rgba(100, 149, 237, 0) 46%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 96% 12.51%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.758) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 47.01%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 2.81% 65.73%, oklch(from #6495ed l c h / 0.8237) 0%, rgb(from #6495ed r g b / 0) 46%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.65:1 at 99% (fails AA); black ink: worst 7.06:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding medium: ~6px bands at 1440px — add grain 11 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 14/64 samples left sRGB by more than 5% and were gamut-mapped (oklch shorter); expect slight hue drift there.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #6495ed 0%, #48a0ee 7.14%, #18aaec 14.29%, #00b4e4 21.43%, #00bcd8 28.57%, #00c3c9 35.71%, #00caba 42.86%, #00cfa6 50%, #36d290 57.14%, #67d379 64.29%, #8cd260 71.43%, #aecf45 78.57%, #cccb28 85.71%, #e7c504 92.86%, #ffbf00 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #6495ed 0%, #ffbf00 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#6495ed] 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="#6495ed"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#48a0ee"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#18aaec"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#00b4e4"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#00bcd8"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#00c3c9"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#00caba"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#00cfa6"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#36d290"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#67d379"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#8cd260"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#aecf45"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#cccb28"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#e7c504"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffbf00"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"cornflowerblue-to-amber": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.392,
0.584,
0.929
],
"hex": "#6495ed"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.749,
0
],
"hex": "#ffbf00"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #6495ed 0%, #ffbf00 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "cornflowerblue-to-amber",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.651,
"at": 0.9947,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 7.064,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Cornflower Blue to Amber, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Cornflower Blue
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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