Colour to colour

Mint Green to Violet gradient

Mint Green (#98ff98) into Violet (#ee82ee) — 177° 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 177° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.

Mint Green → Violet
black text · worst 9.06:1 · AA
white 1.23 failsblack 9.06 AAbanding high

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 1.23 failsblack 9.06 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #98ff98 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 1.23 failsblack 9.06 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #98ff98 0%, #ee82ee 100%)

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

sRGB0%
OKLab3%
OKLCH64%

Eased and mesh

Aa

Eased (soft)

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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 1.23 failsblack 9.06 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #98ff98 0%, #9efd92 8.28%, #aff87f 16.03%, #c7ee64 23.35%, #e2e141 30.32%, #fccf1c 37.03%, #ffbe42 43.56%, #ffb271 50%, #ffa689 56.44%, #ff9a9d 62.97%, #ff8eb3 69.68%, #ff80cc 76.65%, #fc81df 83.97%, #f282ea 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 1.58 failsblack 9.88 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #cfc7ca;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 13.24% 2.13%, rgba(238, 130, 238, 0.794) 0%, rgba(238, 130, 238, 0) 53.04%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 26.53% 37.18%, rgba(152, 255, 152, 0.821) 0%, rgba(152, 255, 152, 0) 46.15%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 13.24% 2.13%, oklch(from #ee82ee l c h / 0.7941) 0%, rgb(from #ee82ee r g b / 0) 53.04%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 26.53% 37.18%, oklch(from #98ff98 l c h / 0.8208) 0%, rgb(from #98ff98 r g b / 0) 46.15%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.23:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.06:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~12px bands at 1440px — add grain 24 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
  • 37/64 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, #98ff98 0%, #b6f578 7.14%, #d0ea59 14.29%, #e7de3a 21.43%, #fad01e 28.57%, #ffc215 35.71%, #ffba58 42.86%, #ffb271 50%, #ffaa82 57.14%, #ffa290 64.29%, #ff9a9f 71.43%, #ff90af 78.57%, #ff84c3 85.71%, #ff80da 92.86%, #ee82ee 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #98ff98 0%, #ee82ee 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#98ff98] 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="#98ff98"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#b6f578"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#d0ea59"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e7de3a"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#fad01e"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffc215"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffba58"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffb271"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffaa82"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffa290"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ff9a9f"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ff90af"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ff84c3"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ff80da"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ee82ee"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "mint-green-to-violet": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.596,
            1,
            0.596
          ],
          "hex": "#98ff98"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.933,
            0.51,
            0.933
          ],
          "hex": "#ee82ee"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #98ff98 0%, #ee82ee 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "mint-green-to-violet",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.229,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 9.063,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Mint Green to Violet, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-gradients https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
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