Colour to colour
Dusty Rose to Cadet Blue gradient
Dusty Rose (#dcae96) into Cadet Blue (#5f9ea0) — 149° 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 149° > 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, #dcae96 0%, #5f9ea0 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, #dcae96 0%, #5f9ea0 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, #dcae96 0%, #dbae94 8.28%, #d7ae90 16.03%, #d1ad8a 23.35%, #c8ad84 30.32%, #bcad7f 37.03%, #adad7e 43.56%, #9dac80 50%, #8cab85 56.44%, #7da98b 62.97%, #71a792 69.68%, #68a498 76.65%, #62a19c 83.97%, #609f9f 91.72%, #5f9ea0 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: #a2a79c; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.48% 37.91%, rgba(95, 158, 160, 0.865) 0%, rgba(95, 158, 160, 0) 51.79%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 50.85% 5%, rgba(220, 174, 150, 0.816) 0%, rgba(220, 174, 150, 0) 47.67%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.48% 37.91%, oklch(from #5f9ea0 l c h / 0.8647) 0%, rgb(from #5f9ea0 r g b / 0) 51.79%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 50.85% 5%, oklch(from #dcae96 l c h / 0.8163) 0%, rgb(from #dcae96 r g b / 0) 47.67%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.99:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 6.88:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~12px bands at 1440px — add grain 24 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #dcae96 0%, #d6ad8e 7.14%, #cead88 14.29%, #c6ad83 21.43%, #bcad7f 28.57%, #b2ad7e 35.71%, #a8ad7e 42.86%, #9dac80 50%, #92ac83 57.14%, #87ab87 64.29%, #7ca98c 71.43%, #73a791 78.57%, #6aa596 85.71%, #64a29b 92.86%, #5f9ea0 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #dcae96 0%, #5f9ea0 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#dcae96] to-[#5f9ea0]
<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="#dcae96"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#d6ad8e"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#cead88"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#c6ad83"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#bcad7f"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#b2ad7e"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#a8ad7e"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#9dac80"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#92ac83"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#87ab87"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#7ca98c"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#73a791"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#6aa596"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#64a29b"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#5f9ea0"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"dusty-rose-to-cadetblue": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.863,
0.682,
0.588
],
"hex": "#dcae96"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.373,
0.62,
0.627
],
"hex": "#5f9ea0"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #dcae96 0%, #5f9ea0 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "dusty-rose-to-cadetblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.993,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 6.885,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Dusty Rose to Cadet Blue, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Dusty Rose
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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