Colour to colour

Lime Green to Violet gradient

Lime Green (#32cd32) into Violet (#ee82ee) — 176° 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 176° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.

Lime Green → Violet
black text · worst 8.46:1 · AA
white 2.12 failsblack 8.46 AAbanding medium

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 2.11 failsblack 9.05 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #32cd32 0%, #ee82ee 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 2.12 failsblack 8.46 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #32cd32 0%, #ee82ee 100%)

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

sRGB2%
OKLab4%
OKLCH74%

Eased and mesh

Aa

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 2.11 failsblack 8.46 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #32cd32 0%, #47cc22 8.28%, #6dc700 16.03%, #97be00 23.35%, #b9b300 30.32%, #d5a700 37.03%, #ef9800 43.56%, #ff8400 50%, #ff805a 56.44%, #ff7d85 62.97%, #ff78a7 69.68%, #ff77c6 76.65%, #fa7cdc 83.97%, #f180ea 91.72%, #ee82ee 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 2.19 failsblack 8.93 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #abb1a2;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 10.88% 90.25%, rgba(50, 205, 50, 0.725) 0%, rgba(50, 205, 50, 0) 45.19%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 64.62% 76.43%, rgba(238, 130, 238, 0.713) 0%, rgba(238, 130, 238, 0) 55.32%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 10.88% 90.25%, oklch(from #32cd32 l c h / 0.7249) 0%, rgb(from #32cd32 r g b / 0) 45.19%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 64.62% 76.43%, oklch(from #ee82ee l c h / 0.7125) 0%, rgb(from #ee82ee r g b / 0) 55.32%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 2.12:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.46:1 at 82% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding medium: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 15 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
  • 50/64 samples left sRGB by more than 5% and were gamut-mapped (oklch shorter); expect slight hue drift there.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #32cd32 0%, #79c500 7.14%, #a3bb00 14.29%, #beb100 21.43%, #d3a800 28.57%, #e69e00 35.71%, #f99200 42.86%, #ff8400 50%, #ff8246 57.14%, #ff7f6b 64.29%, #ff7c87 71.43%, #ff79a1 78.57%, #ff75bd 85.71%, #fd7bd7 92.86%, #ee82ee 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #32cd32 0%, #ee82ee 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#32cd32] to-[#ee82ee]
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="#32cd32"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#79c500"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#a3bb00"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#beb100"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#d3a800"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#e69e00"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#f99200"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ff8400"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ff8246"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ff7f6b"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ff7c87"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ff79a1"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ff75bd"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#fd7bd7"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ee82ee"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "limegreen-to-violet": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.196,
            0.804,
            0.196
          ],
          "hex": "#32cd32"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.933,
            0.51,
            0.933
          ],
          "hex": "#ee82ee"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #32cd32 0%, #ee82ee 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "limegreen-to-violet",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 2.115,
            "at": 0.0148,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 8.455,
            "at": 0.8207,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Lime Green to Violet, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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live endpoint

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endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
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