Colour to colour
Sage Green to Lilac gradient
Sage Green (#9caf88) into Lilac (#c8a2c8) — 163° 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 163° > 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, #9caf88 0%, #c8a2c8 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, #9caf88 0%, #c8a2c8 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, #9caf88 0%, #9eaf87 8.28%, #a3ae84 16.03%, #aaac81 23.35%, #b4aa7e 30.32%, #bea77e 37.03%, #c7a382 43.56%, #cea08a 50%, #d39e95 56.44%, #d49da2 62.97%, #d39eae 69.68%, #d09fb9 76.65%, #cca0c1 83.97%, #c9a2c6 91.72%, #c8a2c8 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: #b3a9a9; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 4.55% 23.11%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0.78) 0%, rgba(200, 162, 200, 0) 53.44%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 52.64% 77.22%, rgba(156, 175, 136, 0.812) 0%, rgba(156, 175, 136, 0) 47.1%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 4.55% 23.11%, oklch(from #c8a2c8 l c h / 0.7801) 0%, rgb(from #c8a2c8 r g b / 0) 53.44%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 52.64% 77.22%, oklch(from #9caf88 l c h / 0.8118) 0%, rgb(from #9caf88 r g b / 0) 47.1%);
Report
- white ink: worst 2.22:1 at 99% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.87:1 at 3% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~23px bands at 1440px — add grain 43 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #9caf88 0%, #a5ad83 7.14%, #adab80 14.29%, #b6a97e 21.43%, #bda77e 28.57%, #c4a580 35.71%, #caa284 42.86%, #cea08a 50%, #d29f91 57.14%, #d39e99 64.29%, #d49da2 71.43%, #d39eac 78.57%, #d19eb6 85.71%, #cda0bf 92.86%, #c8a2c8 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9caf88 0%, #c8a2c8 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#9caf88] to-[#c8a2c8]
<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="#9caf88"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#a5ad83"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#adab80"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#b6a97e"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#bda77e"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#c4a580"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#caa284"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#cea08a"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#d29f91"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#d39e99"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#d49da2"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#d39eac"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#d19eb6"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#cda0bf"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#c8a2c8"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"sage-green-to-lilac": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.612,
0.686,
0.533
],
"hex": "#9caf88"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.784,
0.635,
0.784
],
"hex": "#c8a2c8"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9caf88 0%, #c8a2c8 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "sage-green-to-lilac",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 2.216,
"at": 0.9936,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 8.873,
"at": 0.0287,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Sage Green to Lilac, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Sage Green
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
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