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Dark Orchid to Forest Green gradient
Dark Orchid (#9932cc) into Forest Green (#228b22) — 169° 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 169° > 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, #9932cc 0%, #228b22 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, #9932cc 0%, #228b22 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, #9932cc 0%, #9535cf 8.28%, #8a3cd8 16.03%, #7747e2 23.35%, #5a55e9 30.32%, #2464e8 37.03%, #0075cb 43.56%, #007eab 50%, #008396 56.44%, #008784 62.97%, #008a70 69.68%, #008c5a 76.65%, #008e3c 83.97%, #0c8c2a 91.72%, #228b22 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: #6e6f86; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.62% 78.15%, rgba(153, 50, 204, 0.747) 0%, rgba(153, 50, 204, 0) 49.14%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 47.01% 47.39%, rgba(34, 139, 34, 0.707) 0%, rgba(34, 139, 34, 0) 54.03%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.62% 78.15%, oklch(from #9932cc l c h / 0.7466) 0%, rgb(from #9932cc r g b / 0) 49.14%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 47.01% 47.39%, oklch(from #228b22 l c h / 0.7072) 0%, rgb(from #228b22 r g b / 0) 54.03%);
Report
- white ink: worst 4.23:1 at 92% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 3.67:1 at 1% (AA-large only) → use white 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 high: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 17 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 34/64 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, #9932cc 0%, #863fdb 7.14%, #6f4ce5 14.29%, #5358e9 21.43%, #2a63e8 28.57%, #006fde 35.71%, #0079be 42.86%, #007eab 50%, #00829c 57.14%, #00848f 64.29%, #008783 71.43%, #008974 78.57%, #008b62 85.71%, #008e44 92.86%, #228b22 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9932cc 0%, #228b22 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#9932cc] to-[#228b22]
<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="#9932cc"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#863fdb"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#6f4ce5"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#5358e9"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#2a63e8"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#006fde"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#0079be"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#007eab"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#00829c"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#00848f"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#008783"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#008974"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#008b62"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#008e44"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#228b22"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.6,
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],
"hex": "#9932cc"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.133,
0.545,
0.133
],
"hex": "#228b22"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9932cc 0%, #228b22 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "darkorchid-to-forestgreen",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 4.227,
"at": 0.9193,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 3.671,
"at": 0.0063,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Dark Orchid to Forest Green, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Dark Orchid
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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