Colour to colour
Hunter Green to Dark Orchid gradient
Hunter Green (#355e3b) into Dark Orchid (#9932cc) — 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, #355e3b 0%, #9932cc 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, #355e3b 0%, #9932cc 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, #355e3b 0%, #325f3d 8.28%, #276242 16.03%, #04664b 23.35%, #006a5b 30.32%, #006b6d 37.03%, #006c80 43.56%, #006b97 50%, #0066bb 56.44%, #2d5dcd 62.97%, #5752d6 69.68%, #7446d7 76.65%, #883cd3 83.97%, #9535ce 91.72%, #9932cc 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: #6b5585; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 99.42% 57.19%, rgba(153, 50, 204, 0.81) 0%, rgba(153, 50, 204, 0) 48.79%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 50.87% 73.07%, rgba(53, 94, 59, 0.805) 0%, rgba(53, 94, 59, 0) 53.04%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 99.42% 57.19%, oklch(from #9932cc l c h / 0.8095) 0%, rgb(from #9932cc r g b / 0) 48.79%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 50.87% 73.07%, oklch(from #355e3b l c h / 0.8046) 0%, rgb(from #355e3b r g b / 0) 53.04%);
Report
- white ink: worst 5.69:1 at 100% (AA); black ink: worst 2.81:1 at 1% (fails AA) → use white text.
- Banding high: ~10px bands at 1440px — add grain 21 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 12/64 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, #355e3b 0%, #216344 7.14%, #006750 14.29%, #006b5e 21.43%, #006b6c 28.57%, #006c79 35.71%, #006c87 42.86%, #006b97 50%, #0069ac 57.14%, #0063c3 64.29%, #305cce 71.43%, #5154d5 78.57%, #6b4ad7 85.71%, #833fd4 92.86%, #9932cc 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #355e3b 0%, #9932cc 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#355e3b] to-[#9932cc]
<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="#355e3b"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#216344"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#006750"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#006b5e"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#006b6c"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#006c79"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#006c87"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#006b97"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#0069ac"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#0063c3"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#305cce"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#5154d5"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#6b4ad7"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#833fd4"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#9932cc"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"components": [
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"hex": "#355e3b"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
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"components": [
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],
"hex": "#9932cc"
},
"position": 1
}
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"angle": 135,
"name": "hunter-green-to-darkorchid",
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"passesAA": true,
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},
"black": {
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"at": 0.005,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Hunter Green to Dark Orchid, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Hunter 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
›make a hunter green to dark orchid hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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