Colour to colour
Plum to Dark Khaki gradient
Plum (#dda0dd) into Dark Khaki (#bdb76b) — 138° 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, #dda0dd 0%, #bdb76b 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, #dda0dd 0%, #bdb76b 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, #dda0dd 0%, #dda0dc 8.28%, #dba2d7 16.03%, #d9a4d1 23.35%, #d7a6c9 30.32%, #d3a8bf 37.03%, #d0abb4 43.56%, #cdaea9 50%, #c9b09d 56.44%, #c6b291 62.97%, #c3b485 69.68%, #c1b57b 76.65%, #bfb673 83.97%, #bdb76d 91.72%, #bdb76b 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: #cdaea9; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 37.16% 17.7%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0.835) 0%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0) 46.24%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.65% 89.61%, rgba(189, 183, 107, 0.807) 0%, rgba(189, 183, 107, 0) 56.3%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 37.16% 17.7%, oklch(from #dda0dd l c h / 0.8353) 0%, rgb(from #dda0dd r g b / 0) 46.24%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.65% 89.61%, oklch(from #bdb76b l c h / 0.8073) 0%, rgb(from #bdb76b r g b / 0) 56.3%);
Report
- white ink: worst 2.05:1 at 41% (fails AA); black ink: worst 10.09:1 at 2% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~13px bands at 1440px — add grain 26 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #dda0dd 0%, #dba2d6 7.14%, #d8a4ce 14.29%, #d6a6c7 21.43%, #d4a8c0 28.57%, #d1aab8 35.71%, #cfacb0 42.86%, #cdaea9 50%, #caafa1 57.14%, #c8b199 64.29%, #c6b290 71.43%, #c4b387 78.57%, #c1b57e 85.71%, #bfb675 92.86%, #bdb76b 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #dda0dd 0%, #bdb76b 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#dda0dd] to-[#bdb76b]
<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="#dda0dd"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#dba2d6"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#d8a4ce"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#d6a6c7"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#d4a8c0"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#d1aab8"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#cfacb0"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#cdaea9"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#caafa1"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#c8b199"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#c6b290"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#c4b387"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#c1b57e"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#bfb675"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#bdb76b"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"plum-to-darkkhaki": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.867,
0.627,
0.867
],
"hex": "#dda0dd"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.741,
0.718,
0.42
],
"hex": "#bdb76b"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #dda0dd 0%, #bdb76b 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "plum-to-darkkhaki",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 2.054,
"at": 0.4127,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 10.094,
"at": 0.0155,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Plum to Dark Khaki, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Plum
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 plum to dark khaki hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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