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Lilac to Sand gradient
Lilac (#c8a2c8) into Sand (#c2b280) — 126° 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 oklab — both colours are in the palette and the hue gap is small enough that the straight line stays clean.
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%, #c2b280 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%, #c2b280 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 oklab, #c8a2c8 0%, #c8a2c7 8.28%, #c8a3c4 16.03%, #c7a4c0 23.35%, #c7a6bb 30.32%, #c6a7b5 37.03%, #c5a9ae 43.56%, #c5aba6 50%, #c4ac9e 56.44%, #c4ae97 62.97%, #c3af90 69.68%, #c3b08a 76.65%, #c2b185 83.97%, #c2b281 91.72%, #c2b280 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: #c5aba6; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 3.45% 0.37%, rgba(194, 178, 128, 0.724) 0%, rgba(194, 178, 128, 0) 48.71%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.47% 80.35%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0.759) 0%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0) 51.77%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 3.45% 0.37%, oklch(from #c2b280 l c h / 0.724) 0%, rgb(from #c2b280 r g b / 0) 48.71%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.47% 80.35%, oklch(from #c8a2c8 l c h / 0.7591) 0%, rgb(from #c8a2c8 r g b / 0) 51.77%);
Report
- white ink: worst 2.10:1 at 97% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.44:1 at 3% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~20px bands at 1440px — add grain 40 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #c8a2c8 0%, #c7a3c3 7.14%, #c7a5bf 14.29%, #c7a6ba 21.43%, #c6a7b5 28.57%, #c6a8b0 35.71%, #c5aaab 42.86%, #c5aba6 50%, #c4aca1 57.14%, #c4ad9c 64.29%, #c3ae96 71.43%, #c3af91 78.57%, #c3b08c 85.71%, #c2b186 92.86%, #c2b280 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #c8a2c8 0%, #c2b280 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#c8a2c8] to-[#c2b280]
<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="#c7a3c3"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#c7a5bf"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#c7a6ba"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#c6a7b5"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#c6a8b0"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#c5aaab"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#c5aba6"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#c4aca1"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#c4ad9c"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#c3ae96"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#c3af91"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#c3b08c"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#c2b186"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#c2b280"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"lilac-to-sand": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.784,
0.635,
0.784
],
"hex": "#c8a2c8"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.761,
0.698,
0.502
],
"hex": "#c2b280"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #c8a2c8 0%, #c2b280 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "lilac-to-sand",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 2.102,
"at": 0.9683,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.439,
"at": 0.0257,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Lilac to Sand, interpolated in oklab."
}
}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
›make a lilac to sand hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md