Colour to colour
Cream to Lilac gradient
Cream (#fffdd0) into Lilac (#c8a2c8) — 139° 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%, #c8a2c8 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%, #c8a2c8 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%, #fefcd0 8.28%, #fcf8d0 16.03%, #f8f2d0 23.35%, #f4ebcf 30.32%, #efe2cf 37.03%, #e9d9ce 43.56%, #e3cfce 50%, #dec6cd 56.44%, #d8bccc 62.97%, #d3b4cb 69.68%, #ceadca 76.65%, #cba7c9 83.97%, #c9a3c8 91.72%, #c8a2c8 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: #e3cfce; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 35.89% 12.14%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0.883) 0%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0) 55.39%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 74.35% 71%, rgba(255, 253, 208, 0.821) 0%, rgba(255, 253, 208, 0) 46.04%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 35.89% 12.14%, oklch(from #c8a2c8 l c h / 0.8828) 0%, rgb(from #c8a2c8 r g b / 0) 55.39%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 74.35% 71%, oklch(from #fffdd0 l c h / 0.8211) 0%, rgb(from #fffdd0 r g b / 0) 46.04%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.04:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.46:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- White text disappears completely at 0% (1.00:1 crossing).
- Banding medium: ~16px bands at 1440px — add grain 32 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #fffdd0 0%, #fbf6d0 7.14%, #f7f0d0 14.29%, #f3e9cf 21.43%, #efe3cf 28.57%, #ebdccf 35.71%, #e7d6ce 42.86%, #e3cfce 50%, #dfc9cd 57.14%, #dcc2cc 64.29%, #d8bccc 71.43%, #d4b5cb 78.57%, #d0afca 85.71%, #cca8c9 92.86%, #c8a2c8 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #fffdd0 0%, #c8a2c8 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#fffdd0] to-[#c8a2c8]
<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="#fbf6d0"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#f7f0d0"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#f3e9cf"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#efe3cf"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ebdccf"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#e7d6ce"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#e3cfce"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#dfc9cd"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#dcc2cc"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#d8bccc"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#d4b5cb"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#d0afca"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#cca8c9"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#c8a2c8"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"cream-to-lilac": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.992,
0.816
],
"hex": "#fffdd0"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.784,
0.635,
0.784
],
"hex": "#c8a2c8"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #fffdd0 0%, #c8a2c8 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "cream-to-lilac",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.039,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.458,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Cream to Lilac, 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
›make a cream to lilac hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md