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Lilac to Chartreuse gradient
Lilac (#c8a2c8) into Chartreuse (#7fff00) — 170° 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 170° > 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, #c8a2c8 0%, #7fff00 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, #c8a2c8 0%, #7fff00 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, #c8a2c8 0%, #cba2c8 8.28%, #d3a0c7 16.03%, #e19ec2 23.35%, #f29cb6 30.32%, #ff9aa2 37.03%, #ffa089 43.56%, #ffab70 50%, #ffb545 56.44%, #ffc300 62.97%, #edd500 69.68%, #d0e500 76.65%, #adf300 83.97%, #8dfc00 91.72%, #7fff00 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: #add491; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 72.38% 86.45%, rgba(127, 255, 0, 0.874) 0%, rgba(127, 255, 0, 0) 53.25%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.75% 17.08%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0.746) 0%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0) 45.28%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 72.38% 86.45%, oklch(from #7fff00 l c h / 0.8743) 0%, rgb(from #7fff00 r g b / 0) 53.25%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.75% 17.08%, oklch(from #c8a2c8 l c h / 0.7455) 0%, rgb(from #c8a2c8 r g b / 0) 45.28%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.30:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.46:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding medium: ~7px bands at 1440px — add grain 14 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 42/64 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, #c8a2c8 0%, #d7a0c6 7.14%, #e69dbf 14.29%, #f59bb3 21.43%, #ff9aa3 28.57%, #ff9c90 35.71%, #ffa381 42.86%, #ffab70 50%, #ffb258 57.14%, #ffb91f 64.29%, #ffc400 71.43%, #f2d200 78.57%, #dae000 85.71%, #b8f000 92.86%, #7fff00 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #c8a2c8 0%, #7fff00 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#c8a2c8] to-[#7fff00]
<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="#c8a2c8"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#d7a0c6"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#e69dbf"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#f59bb3"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ff9aa3"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ff9c90"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffa381"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffab70"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffb258"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffb91f"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ffc400"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#f2d200"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#dae000"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#b8f000"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#7fff00"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"lilac-to-chartreuse": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.784,
0.635,
0.784
],
"hex": "#c8a2c8"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.498,
1,
0
],
"hex": "#7fff00"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #c8a2c8 0%, #7fff00 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "lilac-to-chartreuse",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.296,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.458,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Lilac to Chartreuse, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Lilac
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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