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Cornflower Blue to Gold gradient
Cornflower Blue (#6495ed) into Gold (#ffd700) — 166° 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 166° > 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%, #ffd700 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%, #ffd700 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%, #519ef0 16.03%, #34a7f0 23.35%, #00b4ed 30.32%, #00c1e1 37.03%, #00cccf 43.56%, #00d8b8 50%, #36df9a 56.44%, #7be27a 62.97%, #aae15a 69.68%, #cfde3b 76.65%, #e9db1f 83.97%, #f9d808 91.72%, #ffd700 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: #b1bca9; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 60.85% 10.94%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0.703) 0%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0) 52.27%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 21.53% 36.41%, rgba(100, 149, 237, 0.826) 0%, rgba(100, 149, 237, 0) 46.38%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 60.85% 10.94%, oklch(from #ffd700 l c h / 0.7027) 0%, rgb(from #ffd700 r g b / 0) 52.27%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 21.53% 36.41%, oklch(from #6495ed l c h / 0.8264) 0%, rgb(from #6495ed r g b / 0) 46.38%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.40:1 at 100% (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.
- 17/64 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%, #4ba0f0 7.14%, #22abf0 14.29%, #00b6eb 21.43%, #00c0e2 28.57%, #00c8d6 35.71%, #00d0c8 42.86%, #00d8b8 50%, #00dda5 57.14%, #53e08f 64.29%, #7ee278 71.43%, #a3e15f 78.57%, #c4df45 85.71%, #e3dc27 92.86%, #ffd700 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #6495ed 0%, #ffd700 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#6495ed] to-[#ffd700]
<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="#4ba0f0"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#22abf0"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#00b6eb"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#00c0e2"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#00c8d6"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#00d0c8"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#00d8b8"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#00dda5"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#53e08f"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#7ee278"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#a3e15f"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#c4df45"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#e3dc27"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffd700"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"cornflowerblue-to-gold": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.392,
0.584,
0.929
],
"hex": "#6495ed"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.843,
0
],
"hex": "#ffd700"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #6495ed 0%, #ffd700 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "cornflowerblue-to-gold",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.403,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 7.064,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Cornflower Blue to Gold, 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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