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Great Whale

Great Whale is a blue gradient from WebGradients (MIT) — #a3bded → #6991c7 at 0°. Shown here interpolated in OKLab, next to the original sRGB, with the worst-case contrast for white and black text and every export.

#a3bded#6991c7
Open in the makerOriginal sRGB in the maker
Aa — the quick brown fox
black text · worst 6.48:1 · AA
white 1.90 failsblack 6.48 AAbanding high

Same stops, three spaces

The source renders this in sRGB. The number is how much chroma survives at the dullest point along the line — the difference between the first bar and the others is the grey that OKLab removes.

sRGB89%
OKLab89%
OKLCH89%

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.90:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 6.48:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~25px bands at 1440px — add grain 47 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, #a3bded 0%, #9fbaea 7.14%, #9bb7e8 14.29%, #96b3e5 21.43%, #92b0e2 28.57%, #8eaddf 35.71%, #8aaadd 42.86%, #86a7da 50%, #82a4d7 57.14%, #7ea1d5 64.29%, #799dd2 71.43%, #759acf 78.57%, #7197cc 85.71%, #6d94ca 92.86%, #6991c7 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(0deg in oklab, #a3bded 0%, #6991c7 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-t/oklab from-[#a3bded] to-[#6991c7]
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="720" y1="600" x2="720" y2="0"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="#a3bded"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#9fbaea"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#9bb7e8"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#96b3e5"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#92b0e2"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#8eaddf"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#8aaadd"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#86a7da"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#82a4d7"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#7ea1d5"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#799dd2"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#759acf"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#7197cc"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#6d94ca"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#6991c7"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "great-whale": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.639,
            0.741,
            0.929
          ],
          "hex": "#a3bded"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.412,
            0.569,
            0.78
          ],
          "hex": "#6991c7"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(0deg in oklab, #a3bded 0%, #6991c7 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 0,
        "name": "Great Whale",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.899,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 6.476,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Great Whale (WebGradients, MIT), rendered in OKLab."
  }
}

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More blue gradients

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

›take the Great Whale gradient (#a3bded, #6991c7), re-interpolate it in oklch, and tell me the worst-case contrast for white text

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