Colour to colour
Cream to Amber gradient
Cream (#fffdd0) into Amber (#ffbf00) — 21° 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, #fffdd0 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, #fffdd0 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, #fffdd0 0%, #fffcce 8.28%, #fffac8 16.03%, #fff6bf 23.35%, #fff1b4 30.32%, #ffeca6 37.03%, #ffe597 43.56%, #ffdf87 50%, #ffd875 56.44%, #ffd263 62.97%, #ffcc50 69.68%, #ffc73c 76.65%, #ffc327 83.97%, #ffc011 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: #ffdf87; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 5.53% 88.23%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.765) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 54.48%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.95% 10.88%, rgba(255, 253, 208, 0.799) 0%, rgba(255, 253, 208, 0) 48.11%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 5.53% 88.23%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.7648) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 54.48%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.95% 10.88%, oklch(from #fffdd0 l c h / 0.7992) 0%, rgb(from #fffdd0 r g b / 0) 48.11%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.04:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 12.70:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- White text disappears completely at 0% (1.00:1 crossing).
- Banding medium: ~7px bands at 1440px — add grain 13 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #fffdd0 0%, #fff9c6 7.14%, #fff4bc 14.29%, #fff0b2 21.43%, #ffeca7 28.57%, #ffe89d 35.71%, #ffe392 42.86%, #ffdf87 50%, #ffda7b 57.14%, #ffd66f 64.29%, #ffd162 71.43%, #ffcd53 78.57%, #ffc843 85.71%, #ffc42d 92.86%, #ffbf00 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #fffdd0 0%, #ffbf00 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#fffdd0] 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="#fffdd0"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#fff9c6"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#fff4bc"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#fff0b2"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ffeca7"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffe89d"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffe392"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffdf87"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffda7b"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffd66f"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ffd162"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ffcd53"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ffc843"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ffc42d"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffbf00"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"cream-to-amber": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.992,
0.816
],
"hex": "#fffdd0"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.749,
0
],
"hex": "#ffbf00"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #fffdd0 0%, #ffbf00 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "cream-to-amber",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.039,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 12.704,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Cream to Amber, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Cream
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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