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Dark Turquoise to Salmon gradient
Dark Turquoise (#00ced1) into Salmon (#fa8072) — 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, #00ced1 0%, #fa8072 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, #00ced1 0%, #fa8072 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, #00ced1 0%, #01cecd 8.28%, #11cfc3 16.03%, #2dcfb1 23.35%, #4ecd9a 30.32%, #70c97e 37.03%, #92c25e 43.56%, #b1b83f 50%, #cbab27 56.44%, #df9f26 62.97%, #ed933a 69.68%, #f58a50 76.65%, #f98462 83.97%, #fa816e 91.72%, #fa8072 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: #b5aea3; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 1.43% 98.14%, rgba(250, 128, 114, 0.82) 0%, rgba(250, 128, 114, 0) 55.8%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 82.78% 16.13%, rgba(0, 206, 209, 0.702) 0%, rgba(0, 206, 209, 0) 52.5%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 1.43% 98.14%, oklch(from #fa8072 l c h / 0.8204) 0%, rgb(from #fa8072 r g b / 0) 55.8%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 82.78% 16.13%, oklch(from #00ced1 l c h / 0.702) 0%, rgb(from #00ced1 r g b / 0) 52.5%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.95:1 at 3% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.39:1 at 99% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding medium: ~6px bands at 1440px — add grain 10 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #00ced1 0%, #18cfbe 7.14%, #38ceaa 14.29%, #54cd95 21.43%, #6ec97f 28.57%, #86c569 35.71%, #9dbf54 42.86%, #b1b83f 50%, #c3b02d 57.14%, #d3a723 64.29%, #e09e27 71.43%, #eb9536 78.57%, #f38d49 85.71%, #f8865d 92.86%, #fa8072 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #00ced1 0%, #fa8072 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#00ced1] to-[#fa8072]
<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="#00ced1"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#18cfbe"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#38ceaa"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#54cd95"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#6ec97f"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#86c569"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#9dbf54"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#b1b83f"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#c3b02d"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#d3a723"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#e09e27"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#eb9536"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#f38d49"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#f8865d"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#fa8072"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"$value": [
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"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0,
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],
"hex": "#00ced1"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
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0.502,
0.447
],
"hex": "#fa8072"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
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"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #00ced1 0%, #fa8072 100%)",
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"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "darkturquoise-to-salmon",
"contrast": {
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"at": 0.0296,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 8.386,
"at": 0.9949,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Dark Turquoise to Salmon, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Dark Turquoise
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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