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Kind Steel

Kind Steel is a purple gradient from WebGradients (MIT) — #e9defa → #fbfcdb at 340°. Shown here interpolated in OKLab, next to the original sRGB, with the worst-case contrast for white and black text and every export.

#e9defa#fbfcdb
Open in the makerOriginal sRGB in the maker
Aa — the quick brown fox
black text · worst 16.29:1 · AA
white 1.05 failsblack 16.29 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.

sRGB14%
OKLab13%
OKLCH72%

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.05:1 at 98% (fails AA); black ink: worst 16.29:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
  • White text disappears completely at 98% (1.00:1 crossing).
  • Banding high: ~46px bands at 1440px — add grain 50 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(340deg, #e9defa 0%, #eae0f8 7.14%, #ebe2f6 14.29%, #ede5f4 21.43%, #eee7f2 28.57%, #efe9f0 35.71%, #f1ebed 42.86%, #f2edeb 50%, #f3efe9 57.14%, #f4f1e7 64.29%, #f6f4e5 71.43%, #f7f6e2 78.57%, #f8f8e0 85.71%, #fafadd 92.86%, #fbfcdb 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(340deg in oklab, #e9defa 0%, #fbfcdb 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-340/oklab from-[#e9defa] to-[#fbfcdb]
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="900.6421" y1="796.3102" x2="539.3579" y2="-196.3102"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="#e9defa"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#eae0f8"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#ebe2f6"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ede5f4"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#eee7f2"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#efe9f0"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#f1ebed"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#f2edeb"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#f3efe9"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#f4f1e7"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#f6f4e5"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#f7f6e2"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#f8f8e0"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#fafadd"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#fbfcdb"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "kind-steel": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.914,
            0.871,
            0.98
          ],
          "hex": "#e9defa"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.984,
            0.988,
            0.859
          ],
          "hex": "#fbfcdb"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(340deg in oklab, #e9defa 0%, #fbfcdb 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 340,
        "name": "Kind Steel",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.047,
            "at": 0.9841,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 16.294,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Kind Steel (WebGradients, MIT), rendered in OKLab."
  }
}

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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
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›take the Kind Steel gradient (#e9defa, #fbfcdb), re-interpolate it in oklch, and tell me the worst-case contrast for white text

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