Colour to colour
Plum to Dark Sea Green gradient
Plum (#dda0dd) into Dark Sea Green (#8fbc8f) — 178° 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 178° > 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, #dda0dd 0%, #8fbc8f 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%, #8fbc8f 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, #dda0dd 0%, #df9fda 8.28%, #e39ed1 16.03%, #e99cc3 23.35%, #ed9bb1 30.32%, #ee9b9d 37.03%, #eb9f89 43.56%, #e2a479 50%, #d5aa6f 56.44%, #c4b06f 62.97%, #b4b575 69.68%, #a5b97e 76.65%, #99bb87 83.97%, #92bc8d 91.72%, #8fbc8f 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: #b9b0b7; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 19.41% 14.46%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0.751) 0%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0) 52.61%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 60.42% 83.41%, rgba(143, 188, 143, 0.758) 0%, rgba(143, 188, 143, 0) 49.82%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 19.41% 14.46%, oklch(from #dda0dd l c h / 0.7512) 0%, rgb(from #dda0dd r g b / 0) 52.61%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 60.42% 83.41%, oklch(from #8fbc8f l c h / 0.7582) 0%, rgb(from #8fbc8f r g b / 0) 49.82%);
Report
- white ink: worst 2.06:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.73:1 at 97% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~18px bands at 1440px — add grain 37 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #dda0dd 0%, #e59dce 7.14%, #eb9bbe 14.29%, #ee9bae 21.43%, #ee9b9e 28.57%, #ed9d90 35.71%, #e8a083 42.86%, #e2a479 50%, #d9a872 57.14%, #cfac6e 64.29%, #c3b06f 71.43%, #b7b473 78.57%, #a9b87b 85.71%, #9cba84 92.86%, #8fbc8f 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #dda0dd 0%, #8fbc8f 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#dda0dd] to-[#8fbc8f]
<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="#e59dce"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#eb9bbe"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ee9bae"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ee9b9e"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ed9d90"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#e8a083"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#e2a479"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#d9a872"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#cfac6e"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#c3b06f"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#b7b473"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#a9b87b"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#9cba84"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#8fbc8f"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"plum-to-darkseagreen": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.867,
0.627,
0.867
],
"hex": "#dda0dd"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.561,
0.737,
0.561
],
"hex": "#8fbc8f"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #dda0dd 0%, #8fbc8f 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "plum-to-darkseagreen",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 2.065,
"at": 0.0073,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.734,
"at": 0.9709,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Plum to Dark Sea Green, interpolated in oklch."
}
}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 sea green hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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