Colour to colour
Crimson to Dark Cyan gradient
Crimson (#dc143c) into Dark Cyan (#008b8b) — 175° 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 175° > 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, #dc143c 0%, #008b8b 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, #dc143c 0%, #008b8b 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, #dc143c 0%, #dc1934 8.28%, #da2517 16.03%, #d43700 23.35%, #be5500 30.32%, #ab6600 37.03%, #997200 43.56%, #837d00 50%, #638700 56.44%, #408d41 62.97%, #198f5f 69.68%, #008e74 76.65%, #008d81 83.97%, #008c89 91.72%, #008b8b 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: #9a6a66; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 72.14% 15.71%, rgba(220, 20, 60, 0.861) 0%, rgba(220, 20, 60, 0) 48.35%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 78.8% 54.76%, rgba(0, 139, 139, 0.785) 0%, rgba(0, 139, 139, 0) 54.91%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 72.14% 15.71%, oklch(from #dc143c l c h / 0.8609) 0%, rgb(from #dc143c r g b / 0) 48.35%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 78.8% 54.76%, oklch(from #008b8b l c h / 0.7853) 0%, rgb(from #008b8b r g b / 0) 54.91%);
Report
- white ink: worst 4.07:1 at 92% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 4.21:1 at 0% (AA-large only) → use black text.
- Body text fails AA everywhere on this gradient; large text (≥24px / 19px bold) is fine. Add a scrim or lower the chroma for body copy.
- Banding medium: ~7px bands at 1440px — add grain 12 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 11/64 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, #dc143c 0%, #d92a00 7.14%, #cc4400 14.29%, #bb5900 21.43%, #ac6500 28.57%, #9f6e00 35.71%, #927600 42.86%, #837d00 50%, #6e8400 57.14%, #578922 64.29%, #3e8d43 71.43%, #218e5b 78.57%, #008e6e 85.71%, #008d7e 92.86%, #008b8b 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #dc143c 0%, #008b8b 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#dc143c] to-[#008b8b]
<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="#dc143c"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#d92a00"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#cc4400"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#bb5900"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ac6500"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#9f6e00"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#927600"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#837d00"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#6e8400"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#578922"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#3e8d43"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#218e5b"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#008e6e"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#008d7e"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#008b8b"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"crimson-to-darkcyan": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.863,
0.078,
0.235
],
"hex": "#dc143c"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0,
0.545,
0.545
],
"hex": "#008b8b"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #dc143c 0%, #008b8b 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "crimson-to-darkcyan",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 4.07,
"at": 0.9187,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 4.208,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Crimson to Dark Cyan, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Crimson
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 crimson to dark cyan hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md