Colour to colour
Gold to Deep Sky Blue gradient
Gold (#ffd700) into Deep Sky Blue (#00bfff) — 136° 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, #ffd700 0%, #00bfff 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, #ffd700 0%, #00bfff 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, #ffd700 0%, #fdd71b 8.28%, #f6d73a 16.03%, #ebd755 23.35%, #ddd66f 30.32%, #cdd586 37.03%, #bbd39c 43.56%, #a7d1b0 50%, #91cec2 56.44%, #7bcbd3 62.97%, #64c8e2 69.68%, #4cc4ee 76.65%, #32c2f7 83.97%, #16c0fd 91.72%, #00bfff 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: #a7d1b0; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.6% 20.72%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0.899) 0%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0) 47.43%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 26.19% 61.42%, rgba(0, 191, 255, 0.729) 0%, rgba(0, 191, 255, 0) 53.66%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 91.6% 20.72%, oklch(from #ffd700 l c h / 0.8989) 0%, rgb(from #ffd700 r g b / 0) 47.43%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 26.19% 61.42%, oklch(from #00bfff l c h / 0.7286) 0%, rgb(from #00bfff r g b / 0) 53.66%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.40:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.89:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding medium: ~6px bands at 1440px — add grain 9 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ffd700 0%, #f3d742 7.14%, #e7d65e 14.29%, #dbd673 21.43%, #ced585 28.57%, #c1d494 35.71%, #b4d2a3 42.86%, #a7d1b0 50%, #99cfbd 57.14%, #8acdc9 64.29%, #7acbd4 71.43%, #68c8df 78.57%, #54c5ea 85.71%, #3ac2f5 92.86%, #00bfff 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffd700 0%, #00bfff 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ffd700] to-[#00bfff]
<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="#ffd700"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#f3d742"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#e7d65e"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#dbd673"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ced585"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#c1d494"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#b4d2a3"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#a7d1b0"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#99cfbd"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#8acdc9"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#7acbd4"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#68c8df"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#54c5ea"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#3ac2f5"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#00bfff"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"gold-to-deepskyblue": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.843,
0
],
"hex": "#ffd700"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0,
0.749,
1
],
"hex": "#00bfff"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffd700 0%, #00bfff 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "gold-to-deepskyblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.403,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.891,
"at": 0.9965,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Gold to Deep Sky Blue, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Gold
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
›make a gold to deep sky blue hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md