Colour to colour
Crimson to Gold gradient
Crimson (#dc143c) into Gold (#ffd700) — 75° 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, #dc143c 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, #dc143c 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 oklab, #dc143c 0%, #dd1c3c 8.28%, #df2c3c 16.03%, #e23d3c 23.35%, #e6503b 30.32%, #eb623a 37.03%, #ef7538 43.56%, #f38735 50%, #f79831 56.44%, #faa92c 62.97%, #fcb824 69.68%, #fdc41c 76.65%, #fece11 83.97%, #ffd505 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: #f38735; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 35.64% 5.19%, rgba(220, 20, 60, 0.774) 0%, rgba(220, 20, 60, 0) 48.38%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 77.99% 46.07%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0.87) 0%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0) 45.89%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 35.64% 5.19%, oklch(from #dc143c l c h / 0.7742) 0%, rgb(from #dc143c r g b / 0) 48.38%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 77.99% 46.07%, oklch(from #ffd700 l c h / 0.8695) 0%, rgb(from #ffd700 r g b / 0) 45.89%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.40:1 at 100% (fails AA); 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 14 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #dc143c 0%, #e0313c 7.14%, #e4433c 14.29%, #e7533b 21.43%, #eb613a 28.57%, #ee6e39 35.71%, #f17b37 42.86%, #f38735 50%, #f69333 57.14%, #f89e2f 64.29%, #faaa2b 71.43%, #fcb526 78.57%, #fdc11f 85.71%, #fecc14 92.86%, #ffd700 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #dc143c 0%, #ffd700 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#dc143c] 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="#dc143c"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#e0313c"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#e4433c"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e7533b"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#eb613a"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ee6e39"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#f17b37"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#f38735"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#f69333"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#f89e2f"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#faaa2b"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#fcb526"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#fdc11f"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#fecc14"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffd700"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"crimson-to-gold": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.863,
0.078,
0.235
],
"hex": "#dc143c"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.843,
0
],
"hex": "#ffd700"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #dc143c 0%, #ffd700 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "crimson-to-gold",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.403,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 4.208,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Crimson to Gold, interpolated in oklab."
}
}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 gold hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md