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Midnight Blue to Lilac gradient
Midnight Blue (#191970) into Lilac (#c8a2c8) — 53° 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, #191970 0%, #c8a2c8 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, #191970 0%, #c8a2c8 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, #191970 0%, #1b1c71 8.28%, #202275 16.03%, #292c7b 23.35%, #363782 30.32%, #45448b 37.03%, #565294 43.56%, #69609e 50%, #7c6ea7 56.44%, #8f7bb0 62.97%, #a188b8 69.68%, #b192be 76.65%, #bd9bc3 83.97%, #c5a0c7 91.72%, #c8a2c8 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: #69609e; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.94% 1.34%, rgba(25, 25, 112, 0.896) 0%, rgba(25, 25, 112, 0) 50.53%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 62.99% 34.48%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0.749) 0%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0) 50.32%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.94% 1.34%, oklch(from #191970 l c h / 0.8962) 0%, rgb(from #191970 r g b / 0) 50.53%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 62.99% 34.48%, oklch(from #c8a2c8 l c h / 0.7494) 0%, rgb(from #c8a2c8 r g b / 0) 50.32%);
Report
- white ink: worst 2.22:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 1.41:1 at 0% (fails AA) → use white text.
- Neither ink passes AA at the worst point — treat as decorative or add a scrim (rgba(0,0,0,.35) typically lifts white ink past 4:1).
- Banding medium: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 17 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #191970 0%, #232577 7.14%, #2d2f7d 14.29%, #383a84 21.43%, #44438a 28.57%, #504d91 35.71%, #5c5697 42.86%, #69609e 50%, #7669a4 57.14%, #8373aa 64.29%, #907cb0 71.43%, #9e85b6 78.57%, #ac8fbc 85.71%, #ba98c2 92.86%, #c8a2c8 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #191970 0%, #c8a2c8 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#191970] to-[#c8a2c8]
<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="#191970"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#232577"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#2d2f7d"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#383a84"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#44438a"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#504d91"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#5c5697"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#69609e"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#7669a4"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#8373aa"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#907cb0"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#9e85b6"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ac8fbc"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ba98c2"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#c8a2c8"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"midnightblue-to-lilac": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.098,
0.098,
0.439
],
"hex": "#191970"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.784,
0.635,
0.784
],
"hex": "#c8a2c8"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #191970 0%, #c8a2c8 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "midnightblue-to-lilac",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 2.22,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 1.414,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Midnight Blue to Lilac, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Midnight Blue
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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