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Dark Salmon to Powder Blue gradient
Dark Salmon (#e9967a) into Powder Blue (#b0e0e6) — 166° 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 166° > 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, #e9967a 0%, #b0e0e6 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, #e9967a 0%, #b0e0e6 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, #e9967a 0%, #e99878 8.28%, #e79c74 16.03%, #e3a370 23.35%, #dcac6f 30.32%, #d2b774 37.03%, #c6c180 43.56%, #b8cb92 50%, #add2a6 56.44%, #a6d8b9 62.97%, #a5dcca 69.68%, #a7ded7 76.65%, #abdfdf 83.97%, #afe0e4 91.72%, #b0e0e6 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: #d3bdb1; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 30.63% 89.67%, rgba(233, 150, 122, 0.767) 0%, rgba(233, 150, 122, 0) 45.42%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 37.16% 45.4%, rgba(176, 224, 230, 0.722) 0%, rgba(176, 224, 230, 0) 48.27%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 30.63% 89.67%, oklch(from #e9967a l c h / 0.7667) 0%, rgb(from #e9967a r g b / 0) 45.42%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 37.16% 45.4%, oklch(from #b0e0e6 l c h / 0.7216) 0%, rgb(from #b0e0e6 r g b / 0) 48.27%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.43:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.11:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~13px bands at 1440px — add grain 28 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #e9967a 0%, #e69e73 7.14%, #e1a66f 14.29%, #dbae6f 21.43%, #d3b673 28.57%, #cabd7b 35.71%, #c1c485 42.86%, #b8cb92 50%, #b1d09f 57.14%, #aad5ad 64.29%, #a6d8ba 71.43%, #a5dbc7 78.57%, #a6ddd3 85.71%, #aadfdd 92.86%, #b0e0e6 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e9967a 0%, #b0e0e6 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#e9967a] to-[#b0e0e6]
<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="#e9967a"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#e69e73"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#e1a66f"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#dbae6f"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#d3b673"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#cabd7b"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#c1c485"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#b8cb92"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#b1d09f"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#aad5ad"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#a6d8ba"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#a5dbc7"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#a6ddd3"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#aadfdd"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#b0e0e6"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"darksalmon-to-powderblue": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.914,
0.588,
0.478
],
"hex": "#e9967a"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.69,
0.878,
0.902
],
"hex": "#b0e0e6"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e9967a 0%, #b0e0e6 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "darksalmon-to-powderblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.433,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.108,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Dark Salmon to Powder Blue, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Dark Salmon
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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