Colour to colour

Emerald Green to Mustard Yellow gradient

Emerald Green (#50c878) into Mustard Yellow (#ffdb58) — 58° 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.

Emerald Green → Mustard Yellow
black text · worst 9.87:1 · AA
white 1.35 failsblack 9.87 AAbanding high

OKLab and OKLCH, side by side

Aa

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.

white 1.35 failsblack 9.87 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #50c878 0%, #ffdb58 100%)
Aa

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.

white 1.35 failsblack 9.87 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #50c878 0%, #ffdb58 100%)

And the sRGB line most tools draw, for comparison — the number is the chroma that survives at the dullest point.

sRGB90%
OKLab87%
OKLCH98%

Eased and mesh

Aa

Eased (soft)

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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.

white 1.35 failsblack 9.87 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #50c878 0%, #54c878 8.28%, #5fc977 16.03%, #6ecb76 23.35%, #7ecd74 30.32%, #90cf71 37.03%, #a2d16f 43.56%, #b4d36c 50%, #c5d568 56.44%, #d4d765 62.97%, #e2d861 69.68%, #eed95e 76.65%, #f7da5b 83.97%, #fddb59 91.72%, #ffdb58 100%)
Aa

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.

white 1.56 failsblack 11.39 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #b4d36c;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.18% 58.1%, rgba(80, 200, 120, 0.845) 0%, rgba(80, 200, 120, 0) 47.52%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 90.86% 47.4%, rgba(255, 219, 88, 0.743) 0%, rgba(255, 219, 88, 0) 59.03%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.18% 58.1%, oklch(from #50c878 l c h / 0.8451) 0%, rgb(from #50c878 r g b / 0) 47.52%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 90.86% 47.4%, oklch(from #ffdb58 l c h / 0.7433) 0%, rgb(from #ffdb58 r g b / 0) 59.03%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.35:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.87:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 17 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #50c878 0%, #63ca77 7.14%, #73cb75 14.29%, #82cd73 21.43%, #8fcf72 28.57%, #9cd070 35.71%, #a8d26e 42.86%, #b4d36c 50%, #bfd469 57.14%, #cad667 64.29%, #d5d764 71.43%, #e0d862 78.57%, #ead95f 85.71%, #f5da5b 92.86%, #ffdb58 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #50c878 0%, #ffdb58 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#50c878] to-[#ffdb58]
svg
<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="#50c878"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#63ca77"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#73cb75"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#82cd73"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#8fcf72"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#9cd070"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#a8d26e"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#b4d36c"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#bfd469"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#cad667"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#d5d764"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#e0d862"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ead95f"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#f5da5b"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffdb58"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "emerald-green-to-mustard": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.314,
            0.784,
            0.471
          ],
          "hex": "#50c878"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.859,
            0.345
          ],
          "hex": "#ffdb58"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #50c878 0%, #ffdb58 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "emerald-green-to-mustard",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.353,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 9.874,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Emerald Green to Mustard Yellow, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

More from Emerald Green

mcpConnect your agent to the gradient engine
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-gradients https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
try this prompt

make a emerald green to mustard yellow hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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