Colour to colour
Mauve to Emerald Green gradient
Mauve (#e0b0ff) into Emerald Green (#50c878) — 160° 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 160° > 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, #e0b0ff 0%, #50c878 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, #e0b0ff 0%, #50c878 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, #e0b0ff 0%, #ddb0ff 8.28%, #d4b2ff 16.03%, #c6b4ff 23.35%, #b2b9ff 30.32%, #99bdff 37.03%, #74c2ff 43.56%, #44c8ff 50%, #00cdee 56.44%, #00cfd6 62.97%, #00cfbb 69.68%, #00cea1 76.65%, #31cb8c 83.97%, #49c97d 91.72%, #50c878 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: #a4c0bf; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 73.49% 79.86%, rgba(80, 200, 120, 0.834) 0%, rgba(80, 200, 120, 0) 59.27%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 71.07% 42.38%, rgba(224, 176, 255, 0.71) 0%, rgba(224, 176, 255, 0) 48.28%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 73.49% 79.86%, oklch(from #50c878 l c h / 0.8337) 0%, rgb(from #50c878 r g b / 0) 59.27%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 71.07% 42.38%, oklch(from #e0b0ff l c h / 0.7098) 0%, rgb(from #e0b0ff r g b / 0) 48.28%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.78:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.86:1 at 99% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~10px bands at 1440px — add grain 21 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 32/64 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, #e0b0ff 0%, #d1b2ff 7.14%, #c0b6ff 14.29%, #aeb9ff 21.43%, #9abdff 28.57%, #83c0ff 35.71%, #65c4ff 42.86%, #44c8ff 50%, #0bcbf6 57.14%, #00cee6 64.29%, #00cfd4 71.43%, #00d0c0 78.57%, #00cea9 85.71%, #25cc91 92.86%, #50c878 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e0b0ff 0%, #50c878 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#e0b0ff] to-[#50c878]
<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="#e0b0ff"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#d1b2ff"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#c0b6ff"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#aeb9ff"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#9abdff"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#83c0ff"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#65c4ff"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#44c8ff"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#0bcbf6"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#00cee6"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#00cfd4"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#00d0c0"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#00cea9"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#25cc91"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#50c878"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"mauve-to-emerald-green": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.878,
0.69,
1
],
"hex": "#e0b0ff"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.314,
0.784,
0.471
],
"hex": "#50c878"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #e0b0ff 0%, #50c878 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "mauve-to-emerald-green",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.776,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.855,
"at": 0.9928,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Mauve to Emerald Green, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Mauve
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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