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Olive Green to Indigo gradient
Olive Green (#808000) into Indigo (#4b0082) — 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, #808000 0%, #4b0082 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, #808000 0%, #4b0082 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, #808000 0%, #827e00 8.28%, #887700 16.03%, #906d00 23.35%, #965f00 30.32%, #9d4e00 37.03%, #9f3a00 43.56%, #9b2727 50%, #921640 56.44%, #850955 62.97%, #750467 69.68%, #650274 76.65%, #58017c 83.97%, #4e0081 91.72%, #4b0082 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: #615261; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.76% 80.95%, rgba(75, 0, 130, 0.797) 0%, rgba(75, 0, 130, 0) 49.83%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 87.61% 48.29%, rgba(128, 128, 0, 0.743) 0%, rgba(128, 128, 0, 0) 50.93%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 55.76% 80.95%, oklch(from #4b0082 l c h / 0.7967) 0%, rgb(from #4b0082 r g b / 0) 49.83%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 87.61% 48.29%, oklch(from #808000 l c h / 0.7434) 0%, rgb(from #808000 r g b / 0) 50.93%);
Report
- white ink: worst 4.20:1 at 0% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 1.62:1 at 100% (fails AA) → use white text.
- Body text fails AA everywhere on this gradient; large text (≥24px / 19px bold) is fine. Add a scrim or lower the chroma for body copy.
- Banding medium: ~11px bands at 1440px — add grain 23 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #808000 0%, #8a7500 7.14%, #926900 14.29%, #985d00 21.43%, #9d4f00 28.57%, #9f4100 35.71%, #9f340c 42.86%, #9b2727 50%, #961b38 57.14%, #8e1148 64.29%, #840956 71.43%, #780464 78.57%, #6a0370 85.71%, #5b017a 92.86%, #4b0082 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #808000 0%, #4b0082 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#808000] to-[#4b0082]
<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="#808000"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#8a7500"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#926900"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#985d00"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#9d4f00"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#9f4100"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#9f340c"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#9b2727"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#961b38"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#8e1148"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#840956"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#780464"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#6a0370"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#5b017a"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#4b0082"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"olive-to-indigo": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.502,
0.502,
0
],
"hex": "#808000"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.294,
0,
0.51
],
"hex": "#4b0082"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #808000 0%, #4b0082 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "olive-to-indigo",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 4.195,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 1.622,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Olive Green to Indigo, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Olive Green
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
›make a olive green to indigo hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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