Colour to colour
Denim to Midnight Blue gradient
Denim (#1560bd) into Midnight Blue (#191970) — 16° 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, #1560bd 0%, #191970 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, #1560bd 0%, #191970 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, #1560bd 0%, #155fbc 8.28%, #165cb9 16.03%, #1758b4 23.35%, #1852ad 30.32%, #194ba6 37.03%, #1a449e 43.56%, #1b3d96 50%, #1b358e 56.44%, #1b2e86 62.97%, #1a287f 69.68%, #1a2279 76.65%, #191d74 83.97%, #191a71 91.72%, #191970 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: #1b3d96; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 2.58% 9.63%, rgba(21, 96, 189, 0.759) 0%, rgba(21, 96, 189, 0) 52.02%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 9.68% 74.91%, rgba(25, 25, 112, 0.804) 0%, rgba(25, 25, 112, 0) 55.38%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 2.58% 9.63%, oklch(from #1560bd l c h / 0.759) 0%, rgb(from #1560bd r g b / 0) 52.02%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 9.68% 74.91%, oklch(from #191970 l c h / 0.804) 0%, rgb(from #191970 r g b / 0) 55.38%);
Report
- white ink: worst 6.11:1 at 0% (AA); black ink: worst 1.41:1 at 100% (fails AA) → use white text.
- Banding medium: ~19px bands at 1440px — add grain 38 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #1560bd 0%, #165bb7 7.14%, #1856b2 14.29%, #1951ac 21.43%, #194ca6 28.57%, #1a47a1 35.71%, #1a429b 42.86%, #1b3d96 50%, #1b3890 57.14%, #1b338b 64.29%, #1b2e85 71.43%, #1a2980 78.57%, #1a247b 85.71%, #1a1e75 92.86%, #191970 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #1560bd 0%, #191970 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#1560bd] to-[#191970]
<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="#1560bd"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#165bb7"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#1856b2"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#1951ac"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#194ca6"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#1a47a1"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#1a429b"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#1b3d96"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#1b3890"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#1b338b"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#1b2e85"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#1a2980"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#1a247b"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#1a1e75"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#191970"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"denim-to-midnightblue": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.082,
0.376,
0.741
],
"hex": "#1560bd"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.098,
0.098,
0.439
],
"hex": "#191970"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #1560bd 0%, #191970 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "denim-to-midnightblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 6.105,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 1.414,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Denim to Midnight Blue, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Denim
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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