Colour to colour
Olive Green to Royal Blue gradient
Olive Green (#808000) into Royal Blue (#4169e1) — 157° 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 157° > 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%, #4169e1 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%, #4169e1 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%, #7d8104 8.28%, #738411 16.03%, #628824 23.35%, #458d39 30.32%, #009152 37.03%, #00906e 43.56%, #008d85 50%, #008997 56.44%, #0085a9 62.97%, #0080be 69.68%, #0078d8 76.65%, #1d70de 83.97%, #3a6be0 91.72%, #4169e1 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: #5d7d8d; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 56.84% 8.74%, rgba(65, 105, 225, 0.847) 0%, rgba(65, 105, 225, 0) 54.9%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 80.31% 41.4%, rgba(128, 128, 0, 0.754) 0%, rgba(128, 128, 0, 0) 50.04%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 56.84% 8.74%, oklch(from #4169e1 l c h / 0.8471) 0%, rgb(from #4169e1 r g b / 0) 54.9%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 80.31% 41.4%, oklch(from #808000 l c h / 0.7539) 0%, rgb(from #808000 r g b / 0) 50.04%);
Report
- white ink: worst 3.96:1 at 36% (AA-large only); black ink: worst 4.33:1 at 100% (AA-large only) → use black 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: ~6px bands at 1440px — add grain 12 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 29/64 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, #808000 0%, #6f8516 7.14%, #5a8a2a 14.29%, #3e8d3d 21.43%, #009050 28.57%, #009264 35.71%, #008f76 42.86%, #008d85 50%, #008b91 57.14%, #00889d 64.29%, #0085aa 71.43%, #0081ba 78.57%, #007bd0 85.71%, #0672dd 92.86%, #4169e1 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #808000 0%, #4169e1 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#808000] to-[#4169e1]
<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="#6f8516"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#5a8a2a"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#3e8d3d"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#009050"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#009264"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#008f76"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#008d85"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#008b91"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#00889d"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#0085aa"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#0081ba"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#007bd0"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#0672dd"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#4169e1"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.502,
0.502,
0
],
"hex": "#808000"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.255,
0.412,
0.882
],
"hex": "#4169e1"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #808000 0%, #4169e1 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "olive-to-royalblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 3.963,
"at": 0.3603,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 4.333,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Olive Green to Royal Blue, 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
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