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Goldenrod to Slate Gray gradient
Goldenrod (#daa520) into Slate Gray (#708090) — 164° 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 164° > 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, #daa520 0%, #708090 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, #daa520 0%, #708090 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, #daa520 0%, #d6a622 8.28%, #caa92a 16.03%, #b8ac39 23.35%, #a0ae4d 30.32%, #86af63 37.03%, #6dad78 43.56%, #5ba789 50%, #56a096 56.44%, #59989c 62.97%, #61909c 69.68%, #688999 76.65%, #6d8495 83.97%, #6f8191 91.72%, #708090 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: #a5946c; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.75% 36.82%, rgba(218, 165, 32, 0.852) 0%, rgba(218, 165, 32, 0) 59.2%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 61.42% 24.43%, rgba(112, 128, 144, 0.758) 0%, rgba(112, 128, 144, 0) 50.79%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.75% 36.82%, oklch(from #daa520 l c h / 0.8521) 0%, rgb(from #daa520 r g b / 0) 59.2%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 61.42% 24.43%, oklch(from #708090 l c h / 0.7576) 0%, rgb(from #708090 r g b / 0) 50.79%);
Report
- white ink: worst 2.24:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 5.18:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~13px bands at 1440px — add grain 27 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #daa520 0%, #c5aa2d 7.14%, #b0ad3f 14.29%, #9baf51 21.43%, #87af61 28.57%, #75ae71 35.71%, #66ab7e 42.86%, #5ba789 50%, #56a392 57.14%, #569d98 64.29%, #5a979c 71.43%, #60919c 78.57%, #668b9a 85.71%, #6b8596 92.86%, #708090 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #daa520 0%, #708090 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#daa520] to-[#708090]
<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="#daa520"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#c5aa2d"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#b0ad3f"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#9baf51"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#87af61"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#75ae71"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#66ab7e"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#5ba789"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#56a392"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#569d98"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#5a979c"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#60919c"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#668b9a"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#6b8596"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#708090"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"goldenrod-to-slategray": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.855,
0.647,
0.125
],
"hex": "#daa520"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.439,
0.502,
0.565
],
"hex": "#708090"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #daa520 0%, #708090 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "goldenrod-to-slategray",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 2.238,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 5.179,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Goldenrod to Slate Gray, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Goldenrod
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 goldenrod to slate gray hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md