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Light Coral to Turquoise gradient

Light Coral (#f08080) into Turquoise (#40e0d0) — 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.

Light Coral → Turquoise
black text · worst 8.09:1 · AA
white 1.64 failsblack 8.09 AAbanding high

OKLab and OKLCH, side by side

Aa

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.

white 1.64 failsblack 8.10 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #f08080 0%, #40e0d0 100%)
Aa

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.

white 1.64 failsblack 8.09 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f08080 0%, #40e0d0 100%)

And the sRGB line most tools draw, for comparison — the number is the chroma that survives at the dullest point.

sRGB8%
OKLab14%
OKLCH97%

Eased and mesh

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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.

white 1.64 failsblack 8.09 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f08080 0%, #f1817d 8.28%, #f28473 16.03%, #f18a64 23.35%, #ee9253 30.32%, #e69e43 37.03%, #d9ab3c 43.56%, #c5b946 50%, #adc55d 56.44%, #92d079 62.97%, #76d795 69.68%, #5edcad 76.65%, #4ddfc0 83.97%, #43e0cc 91.72%, #40e0d0 100%)
Aa

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.

white 1.76 failsblack 8.29 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #b9b5a8;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 17.47% 18.31%, rgba(240, 128, 128, 0.839) 0%, rgba(240, 128, 128, 0) 49.9%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 75.77% 72.91%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0.793) 0%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0) 48.96%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 17.47% 18.31%, oklch(from #f08080 l c h / 0.839) 0%, rgb(from #f08080 r g b / 0) 49.9%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 75.77% 72.91%, oklch(from #40e0d0 l c h / 0.7929) 0%, rgb(from #40e0d0 r g b / 0) 48.96%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.64:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.09:1 at 1% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 16 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #f08080 0%, #f2856f 7.14%, #f18c5f 14.29%, #ed944f 21.43%, #e79d43 28.57%, #dea63c 35.71%, #d3af3d 42.86%, #c5b946 50%, #b5c155 57.14%, #a4c967 64.29%, #90d07b 71.43%, #7bd690 78.57%, #66dba6 85.71%, #51debb 92.86%, #40e0d0 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f08080 0%, #40e0d0 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#f08080] to-[#40e0d0]
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="210" y1="-210" x2="1230" y2="810"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="#f08080"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#f2856f"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#f18c5f"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ed944f"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#e79d43"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#dea63c"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#d3af3d"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#c5b946"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#b5c155"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#a4c967"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#90d07b"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#7bd690"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#66dba6"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#51debb"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#40e0d0"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "lightcoral-to-turquoise": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.941,
            0.502,
            0.502
          ],
          "hex": "#f08080"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.251,
            0.878,
            0.816
          ],
          "hex": "#40e0d0"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #f08080 0%, #40e0d0 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "lightcoral-to-turquoise",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.642,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 8.094,
            "at": 0.0077,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Light Coral to Turquoise, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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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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