Colour to colour
Powder Blue to Burlywood gradient
Powder Blue (#b0e0e6) into Burlywood (#deb887) — 132° 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, #b0e0e6 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, #b0e0e6 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 oklab, #b0e0e6 0%, #b1dfe5 8.28%, #b3dee1 16.03%, #b7dcdb 23.35%, #bbd9d4 30.32%, #c0d5cb 37.03%, #c5d1c2 43.56%, #cacdb8 50%, #cfc9ae 56.44%, #d3c4a4 62.97%, #d7c19b 69.68%, #dabd93 76.65%, #dcba8d 83.97%, #ddb988 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: #cacdb8; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 18.39% 74.98%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0.773) 0%, rgba(222, 184, 135, 0) 50.97%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 62.89% 12.22%, rgba(176, 224, 230, 0.828) 0%, rgba(176, 224, 230, 0) 58.49%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 18.39% 74.98%, oklch(from #deb887 l c h / 0.773) 0%, rgb(from #deb887 r g b / 0) 50.97%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 62.89% 12.22%, oklch(from #b0e0e6 l c h / 0.8276) 0%, rgb(from #b0e0e6 r g b / 0) 58.49%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.43:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 11.31:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~15px bands at 1440px — add grain 31 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #b0e0e6 0%, #b4dddf 7.14%, #b8dbd9 14.29%, #bcd8d2 21.43%, #c0d5cc 28.57%, #c3d2c5 35.71%, #c7d0be 42.86%, #cacdb8 50%, #cdcab1 57.14%, #d0c7aa 64.29%, #d3c4a3 71.43%, #d6c19c 78.57%, #d9be95 85.71%, #dbbb8e 92.86%, #deb887 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #b0e0e6 0%, #deb887 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#b0e0e6] 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="#b0e0e6"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#b4dddf"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#b8dbd9"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#bcd8d2"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#c0d5cc"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#c3d2c5"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#c7d0be"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#cacdb8"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#cdcab1"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#d0c7aa"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#d3c4a3"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#d6c19c"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#d9be95"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#dbbb8e"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#deb887"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"powderblue-to-burlywood": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.69,
0.878,
0.902
],
"hex": "#b0e0e6"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.871,
0.722,
0.529
],
"hex": "#deb887"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #b0e0e6 0%, #deb887 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "powderblue-to-burlywood",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.432,
"at": 0.0136,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 11.312,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Powder Blue to Burlywood, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Powder Blue
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 powder blue to burlywood hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md