Colour to colour
Ochre to Cadet Blue gradient
Ochre (#cc7722) into Cadet Blue (#5f9ea0) — 139° 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, #cc7722 0%, #5f9ea0 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, #cc7722 0%, #5f9ea0 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, #cc7722 0%, #cb7826 8.28%, #c77a2f 16.03%, #c27d3b 23.35%, #bb8147 30.32%, #b38654 37.03%, #a98a61 43.56%, #9f8e6d 50%, #939279 56.44%, #889683 62.97%, #7c988d 69.68%, #719b95 76.65%, #689d9b 83.97%, #619e9f 91.72%, #5f9ea0 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: #9f8e6d; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 19.15% 84.78%, rgba(204, 119, 34, 0.737) 0%, rgba(204, 119, 34, 0) 55.99%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.69% 29.73%, rgba(95, 158, 160, 0.86) 0%, rgba(95, 158, 160, 0) 54.93%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 19.15% 84.78%, oklch(from #cc7722 l c h / 0.7367) 0%, rgb(from #cc7722 r g b / 0) 55.99%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 22.69% 29.73%, oklch(from #5f9ea0 l c h / 0.8599) 0%, rgb(from #5f9ea0 r g b / 0) 54.93%);
Report
- white ink: worst 3.04:1 at 99% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 6.23:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~11px bands at 1440px — add grain 24 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #cc7722 0%, #c67b32 7.14%, #c07f3f 14.29%, #ba824a 21.43%, #b38553 28.57%, #ad895c 35.71%, #a68c65 42.86%, #9f8e6d 50%, #979175 57.14%, #8f937c 64.29%, #879684 71.43%, #7e988b 78.57%, #759a92 85.71%, #6b9c99 92.86%, #5f9ea0 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #cc7722 0%, #5f9ea0 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#cc7722] to-[#5f9ea0]
<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="#cc7722"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#c67b32"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#c07f3f"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ba824a"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#b38553"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ad895c"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#a68c65"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#9f8e6d"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#979175"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#8f937c"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#879684"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#7e988b"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#759a92"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#6b9c99"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#5f9ea0"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"ochre-to-cadetblue": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.8,
0.467,
0.133
],
"hex": "#cc7722"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.373,
0.62,
0.627
],
"hex": "#5f9ea0"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #cc7722 0%, #5f9ea0 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "ochre-to-cadetblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 3.039,
"at": 0.9852,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 6.229,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Ochre to Cadet Blue, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Ochre
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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Machine-readable: gradients.md