Colour to colour
Forest Green to Medium Violet Red gradient
Forest Green (#228b22) into Medium Violet Red (#c71585) — 153° 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 153° > 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, #228b22 0%, #c71585 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, #228b22 0%, #c71585 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, #228b22 0%, #2d8a18 8.28%, #438800 16.03%, #5f8200 23.35%, #767b00 30.32%, #887300 37.03%, #996900 43.56%, #aa5e00 50%, #bd4a00 56.44%, #d02a00 62.97%, #d21a3b 69.68%, #d0115b 76.65%, #cc1172 83.97%, #c81480 91.72%, #c71585 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: #8f695e; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.83% 12.62%, rgba(199, 21, 133, 0.852) 0%, rgba(199, 21, 133, 0) 58.61%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 4.64% 55.73%, rgba(34, 139, 34, 0.743) 0%, rgba(34, 139, 34, 0) 46.22%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.83% 12.62%, oklch(from #c71585 l c h / 0.8517) 0%, rgb(from #c71585 r g b / 0) 58.61%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 4.64% 55.73%, oklch(from #228b22 l c h / 0.7429) 0%, rgb(from #228b22 r g b / 0) 46.22%);
Report
- white ink: worst 4.37:1 at 1% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 3.87:1 at 99% (AA-large only) → use white text.
- Body text fails AA everywhere on this gradient; large text (≥24px / 19px bold) is fine. Add a scrim or lower the chroma for body copy.
- Banding high: ~9px bands at 1440px — add grain 18 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 20/64 samples left sRGB by more than 5% and were gamut-mapped (oklch shorter); expect slight hue drift there.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #228b22 0%, #4b8700 7.14%, #678000 14.29%, #7a7900 21.43%, #877300 28.57%, #936d00 35.71%, #9e6600 42.86%, #aa5e00 50%, #b65200 57.14%, #c63f00 64.29%, #d02900 71.43%, #d21c33 78.57%, #d11351 85.71%, #cd106c 92.86%, #c71585 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #228b22 0%, #c71585 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#228b22] to-[#c71585]
<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="#228b22"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#4b8700"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#678000"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#7a7900"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#877300"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#936d00"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#9e6600"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#aa5e00"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#b65200"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#c63f00"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#d02900"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#d21c33"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#d11351"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#cd106c"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#c71585"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"forestgreen-to-mediumvioletred": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.133,
0.545,
0.133
],
"hex": "#228b22"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.78,
0.082,
0.522
],
"hex": "#c71585"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #228b22 0%, #c71585 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "forestgreen-to-mediumvioletred",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 4.37,
"at": 0.0085,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 3.868,
"at": 0.987,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Forest Green to Medium Violet Red, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Forest Green
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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