Colour to colour
Plum to Sand gradient
Plum (#dda0dd) into Sand (#c2b280) — 126° 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%, #c2b280 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%, #c2b280 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%, #dba1d8 16.03%, #daa3d3 23.35%, #d8a5cc 30.32%, #d5a7c4 37.03%, #d2a9bb 43.56%, #cfaab1 50%, #ccaca7 56.44%, #caae9d 62.97%, #c7af94 69.68%, #c5b08c 76.65%, #c3b186 83.97%, #c2b282 91.72%, #c2b280 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: #cfaab1; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 30.57% 1.94%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0.764) 0%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0) 52.38%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 33.63% 91.29%, rgba(194, 178, 128, 0.778) 0%, rgba(194, 178, 128, 0) 52.37%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 30.57% 1.94%, oklch(from #dda0dd l c h / 0.764) 0%, rgb(from #dda0dd r g b / 0) 52.38%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 33.63% 91.29%, oklch(from #c2b280 l c h / 0.7779) 0%, rgb(from #c2b280 r g b / 0) 52.37%);
Report
- white ink: worst 2.06:1 at 6% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.94:1 at 96% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~15px bands at 1440px — add grain 32 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #dda0dd 0%, #dba2d7 7.14%, #d9a3d1 14.29%, #d7a5ca 21.43%, #d5a6c4 28.57%, #d3a8be 35.71%, #d1a9b7 42.86%, #cfaab1 50%, #cdacaa 57.14%, #cbada4 64.29%, #caae9d 71.43%, #c8af96 78.57%, #c6b08f 85.71%, #c4b188 92.86%, #c2b280 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #dda0dd 0%, #c2b280 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#dda0dd] to-[#c2b280]
<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="#dba2d7"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#d9a3d1"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#d7a5ca"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#d5a6c4"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#d3a8be"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#d1a9b7"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#cfaab1"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#cdacaa"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#cbada4"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#caae9d"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#c8af96"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#c6b08f"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#c4b188"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#c2b280"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"plum-to-sand": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.867,
0.627,
0.867
],
"hex": "#dda0dd"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.761,
0.698,
0.502
],
"hex": "#c2b280"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #dda0dd 0%, #c2b280 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "plum-to-sand",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 2.065,
"at": 0.0635,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.942,
"at": 0.9607,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Plum to Sand, 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 sand hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md