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Dark Orchid to Hunter Green gradient
Dark Orchid (#9932cc) into Hunter Green (#355e3b) — 164° 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 164° > 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%, #355e3b 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%, #355e3b 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%, #9535ce 8.28%, #883cd3 16.03%, #7446d7 23.35%, #5752d6 30.32%, #2d5dcd 37.03%, #0066bb 43.56%, #006b97 50%, #006c80 56.44%, #006b6d 62.97%, #006a5b 69.68%, #04664b 76.65%, #276242 83.97%, #325f3d 91.72%, #355e3b 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: #6b5585; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 84.85% 24.46%, rgba(153, 50, 204, 0.721) 0%, rgba(153, 50, 204, 0) 52.12%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 13.15% 31.05%, rgba(53, 94, 59, 0.708) 0%, rgba(53, 94, 59, 0) 45.7%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 84.85% 24.46%, oklch(from #9932cc l c h / 0.7214) 0%, rgb(from #9932cc r g b / 0) 52.12%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 13.15% 31.05%, oklch(from #355e3b l c h / 0.7084) 0%, rgb(from #355e3b r g b / 0) 45.7%);
Report
- white ink: worst 5.69:1 at 1% (AA); black ink: worst 2.81:1 at 100% (fails AA) → use white text.
- Banding high: ~10px bands at 1440px — add grain 21 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 12/64 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%, #833fd4 7.14%, #6b4ad7 14.29%, #5154d5 21.43%, #305cce 28.57%, #0063c3 35.71%, #0069ac 42.86%, #006b97 50%, #006c87 57.14%, #006c79 64.29%, #006b6c 71.43%, #006b5e 78.57%, #006750 85.71%, #216344 92.86%, #355e3b 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9932cc 0%, #355e3b 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#9932cc] to-[#355e3b]
<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="#833fd4"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#6b4ad7"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#5154d5"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#305cce"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#0063c3"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#0069ac"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#006b97"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#006c87"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#006c79"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#006b6c"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#006b5e"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#006750"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#216344"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#355e3b"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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{
"color": {
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"components": [
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],
"hex": "#9932cc"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
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],
"hex": "#355e3b"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
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"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9932cc 0%, #355e3b 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "darkorchid-to-hunter-green",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 5.691,
"at": 0.005,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 2.81,
"at": 0.9977,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Dark Orchid to Hunter 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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