Colour to colour
Mustard Yellow to Cornflower Blue gradient
Mustard Yellow (#ffdb58) into Cornflower Blue (#6495ed) — 168° 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 168° > 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, #ffdb58 0%, #6495ed 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, #ffdb58 0%, #6495ed 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, #ffdb58 0%, #fadc58 8.28%, #ecdd5a 16.03%, #d5df61 23.35%, #b5e170 30.32%, #8ce186 37.03%, #5ade9f 43.56%, #00d7b9 50%, #00cdcf 56.44%, #00c1e0 62.97%, #00b4ea 69.68%, #39a8ef 76.65%, #529eef 83.97%, #6097ee 91.72%, #6495ed 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: #b1bdb6; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 79.72% 83.26%, rgba(255, 219, 88, 0.792) 0%, rgba(255, 219, 88, 0) 53.67%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 24.26% 30.78%, rgba(100, 149, 237, 0.785) 0%, rgba(100, 149, 237, 0) 46.74%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 79.72% 83.26%, oklch(from #ffdb58 l c h / 0.7918) 0%, rgb(from #ffdb58 r g b / 0) 53.67%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 24.26% 30.78%, oklch(from #6495ed l c h / 0.7846) 0%, rgb(from #6495ed r g b / 0) 46.74%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.35:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 7.06:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding medium: ~9px bands at 1440px — add grain 19 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 3/64 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, #ffdb58 0%, #e6de5b 7.14%, #cbe065 14.29%, #aee174 21.43%, #8fe184 28.57%, #6ddf96 35.71%, #45dca8 42.86%, #00d7b9 50%, #00d1c8 57.14%, #00c9d6 64.29%, #00c0e1 71.43%, #00b7e9 78.57%, #2cacee 85.71%, #4da1ef 92.86%, #6495ed 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ffdb58 0%, #6495ed 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#ffdb58] to-[#6495ed]
<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="#ffdb58"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#e6de5b"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#cbe065"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#aee174"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#8fe184"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#6ddf96"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#45dca8"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#00d7b9"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#00d1c8"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#00c9d6"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#00c0e1"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#00b7e9"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#2cacee"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#4da1ef"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#6495ed"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"color": {
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"components": [
1,
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],
"hex": "#ffdb58"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
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"components": [
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],
"hex": "#6495ed"
},
"position": 1
}
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"$extensions": {
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"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ffdb58 0%, #6495ed 100%)",
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"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "mustard-to-cornflowerblue",
"contrast": {
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"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 7.064,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Mustard Yellow to Cornflower Blue, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Mustard Yellow
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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