Colour to colour

Peach to Amber gradient

Peach (#ffe5b4) into Amber (#ffbf00) — 1° 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.

Peach → Amber
black text · worst 12.70:1 · AA
white 1.23 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium

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 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffe5b4 0%, #ffbf00 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 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ffe5b4 0%, #ffbf00 100%)

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

sRGB57%
OKLab57%
OKLCH57%

Eased and mesh

Aa

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.

white 1.23 failsblack 12.70 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffe5b4 0%, #ffe4b2 8.28%, #ffe3ae 16.03%, #ffe1a7 23.35%, #ffde9d 30.32%, #ffda92 37.03%, #ffd785 43.56%, #ffd377 50%, #ffcf68 56.44%, #ffcb59 62.97%, #ffc748 69.68%, #ffc436 76.65%, #ffc123 83.97%, #ffc00e 91.72%, #ffbf00 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 1.30 failsblack 13.46 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #ffd377;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 66.49% 96.3%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.888) 0%, rgba(255, 191, 0, 0) 59.8%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 12.43% 37.04%, rgba(255, 229, 180, 0.881) 0%, rgba(255, 229, 180, 0) 57.41%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 66.49% 96.3%, oklch(from #ffbf00 l c h / 0.8875) 0%, rgb(from #ffbf00 r g b / 0) 59.8%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 12.43% 37.04%, oklch(from #ffe5b4 l c h / 0.8814) 0%, rgb(from #ffe5b4 r g b / 0) 57.41%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.23:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 12.70:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding medium: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 16 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ffe5b4 0%, #ffe2ac 7.14%, #ffe0a4 14.29%, #ffdd9b 21.43%, #ffdb93 28.57%, #ffd88a 35.71%, #ffd581 42.86%, #ffd377 50%, #ffd06d 57.14%, #ffcd63 64.29%, #ffca58 71.43%, #ffc84b 78.57%, #ffc53c 85.71%, #ffc229 92.86%, #ffbf00 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffe5b4 0%, #ffbf00 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ffe5b4] to-[#ffbf00]
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="#ffe5b4"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#ffe2ac"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#ffe0a4"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ffdd9b"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ffdb93"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffd88a"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffd581"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffd377"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffd06d"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffcd63"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ffca58"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ffc84b"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ffc53c"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ffc229"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffbf00"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "peach-to-amber": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.898,
            0.706
          ],
          "hex": "#ffe5b4"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.749,
            0
          ],
          "hex": "#ffbf00"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ffe5b4 0%, #ffbf00 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "peach-to-amber",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.227,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 12.704,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Peach to Amber, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

More from Peach

mcpConnect your agent to the gradient engine
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
try this prompt

make a peach to amber hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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Machine-readable: gradients.md