Colour to colour
Lavender to Amber gradient
Lavender (#e6e6fa) into Amber (#ffbf00) — 158° 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 158° > 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, #e6e6fa 0%, #ffbf00 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, #e6e6fa 0%, #ffbf00 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, #e6e6fa 0%, #e6e5fb 8.28%, #e7e2fc 16.03%, #ebdefd 23.35%, #f2d7fb 30.32%, #fccff4 37.03%, #ffc6e6 43.56%, #ffc2d1 50%, #ffbfbc 56.44%, #ffbda5 62.97%, #ffbb89 69.68%, #ffba65 76.65%, #ffbb33 83.97%, #ffbe16 91.72%, #ffbf00 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: #f3d5a2; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 23.67% 88.75%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.781) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 57.09%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 85.04% 51.91%, rgba(230, 230, 250, 0.835) 0%, rgba(230, 230, 250, 0) 53.42%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 23.67% 88.75%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.7807) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 57.09%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 85.04% 51.91%, oklch(from #e6e6fa l c h / 0.8349) 0%, rgb(from #e6e6fa r g b / 0) 53.42%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.23:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 12.33:1 at 94% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding medium: ~6px bands at 1440px — add grain 10 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 38/64 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, #e6e6fa 0%, #e8e1fd 7.14%, #eddcfd 14.29%, #f3d6fa 21.43%, #fbd0f5 28.57%, #ffc9ec 35.71%, #ffc3e0 42.86%, #ffc2d1 50%, #ffc0c3 57.14%, #ffbfb4 64.29%, #ffbda3 71.43%, #ffbc8f 78.57%, #ffbb73 85.71%, #ffba3f 92.86%, #ffbf00 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e6e6fa 0%, #ffbf00 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#e6e6fa] to-[#ffbf00]
<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="#e6e6fa"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#e8e1fd"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#eddcfd"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#f3d6fa"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#fbd0f5"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffc9ec"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffc3e0"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffc2d1"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffc0c3"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffbfb4"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ffbda3"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ffbc8f"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ffbb73"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ffba3f"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffbf00"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"lavender-to-amber": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.902,
0.902,
0.98
],
"hex": "#e6e6fa"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
1,
0.749,
0
],
"hex": "#ffbf00"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e6e6fa 0%, #ffbf00 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "lavender-to-amber",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.231,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 12.329,
"at": 0.9405,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Lavender to Amber, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Lavender
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
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