Colour to colour
Periwinkle to Burlywood gradient
Periwinkle (#ccccff) into Burlywood (#deb887) — 149° 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 149° > 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, #ccccff 0%, #deb887 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, #ccccff 0%, #deb887 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, #ccccff 0%, #cecbfe 8.28%, #d2c9fc 16.03%, #d8c5f7 23.35%, #e0c1ef 30.32%, #e7bce4 37.03%, #edb8d7 43.56%, #f2b5c7 50%, #f3b3b7 56.44%, #f2b3a8 62.97%, #eeb49b 69.68%, #e9b591 76.65%, #e3b68b 83.97%, #e0b888 91.72%, #deb887 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: #d5c3c5; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 24.64% 65.48%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0.788) 0%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0) 54.23%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 62.9% 41.49%, rgba(204, 204, 255, 0.836) 0%, rgba(204, 204, 255, 0) 45.74%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 24.64% 65.48%, oklch(from #deb887 l c h / 0.7882) 0%, rgb(from #deb887 r g b / 0) 54.23%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 62.9% 41.49%, oklch(from #ccccff l c h / 0.8355) 0%, rgb(from #ccccff r g b / 0) 45.74%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.53:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 11.30:1 at 98% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~12px bands at 1440px — add grain 25 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ccccff 0%, #d3c8fb 7.14%, #dbc4f5 14.29%, #e1c0ee 21.43%, #e7bce5 28.57%, #ebb9dc 35.71%, #efb7d2 42.86%, #f2b5c7 50%, #f3b3bc 57.14%, #f3b3b1 64.29%, #f2b3a7 71.43%, #efb39d 78.57%, #ebb494 85.71%, #e5b68d 92.86%, #deb887 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ccccff 0%, #deb887 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#ccccff] to-[#deb887]
<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="#ccccff"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#d3c8fb"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#dbc4f5"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e1c0ee"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#e7bce5"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ebb9dc"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#efb7d2"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#f2b5c7"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#f3b3bc"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#f3b3b1"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#f2b3a7"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#efb39d"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ebb494"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#e5b68d"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#deb887"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"periwinkle-to-burlywood": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.8,
0.8,
1
],
"hex": "#ccccff"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.871,
0.722,
0.529
],
"hex": "#deb887"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ccccff 0%, #deb887 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "periwinkle-to-burlywood",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.535,
"at": 0.0082,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 11.298,
"at": 0.9826,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Periwinkle to Burlywood, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Periwinkle
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 periwinkle to burlywood hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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