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Shady Water

Shady Water is a teal gradient from WebGradients (MIT) — #74ebd5 → #9face6 at 0°. Shown here interpolated in OKLab, next to the original sRGB, with the worst-case contrast for white and black text and every export.

#74ebd5#9face6
Open in the makerOriginal sRGB in the maker
Aa — the quick brown fox
black text · worst 9.52:1 · AA
white 1.44 failsblack 9.52 AAbanding high

Same stops, three spaces

The source renders this in sRGB. The number is how much chroma survives at the dullest point along the line — the difference between the first bar and the others is the grey that OKLab removes.

sRGB68%
OKLab66%
OKLCH86%

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.44:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.52:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~23px bands at 1440px — add grain 44 (≈3% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, #74ebd5 0%, #79e7d6 7.14%, #7de2d8 14.29%, #81ded9 21.43%, #85d9db 28.57%, #88d5dc 35.71%, #8cd1dd 42.86%, #8fccde 50%, #91c8e0 57.14%, #94c3e1 64.29%, #97bfe2 71.43%, #99bae3 78.57%, #9bb5e4 85.71%, #9db1e5 92.86%, #9face6 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(0deg in oklab, #74ebd5 0%, #9face6 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-t/oklab from-[#74ebd5] to-[#9face6]
svg
<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="720" y1="600" x2="720" y2="0"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="#74ebd5"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#79e7d6"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#7de2d8"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#81ded9"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#85d9db"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#88d5dc"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#8cd1dd"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#8fccde"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#91c8e0"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#94c3e1"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#97bfe2"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#99bae3"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#9bb5e4"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#9db1e5"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#9face6"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "shady-water": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.455,
            0.922,
            0.835
          ],
          "hex": "#74ebd5"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.624,
            0.675,
            0.902
          ],
          "hex": "#9face6"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(0deg in oklab, #74ebd5 0%, #9face6 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 0,
        "name": "Shady Water",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.438,
            "at": 0.0082,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 9.518,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Shady Water (WebGradients, MIT), rendered in OKLab."
  }
}

Tagged

Teal gradientsBlue gradientsCoolLightOceanCalm

More teal gradients

mcpConnect your agent to the gradient engine
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-gradients https://mcp.brandsweets.com/gradients/mcp
try this prompt

›take the Shady Water gradient (#74ebd5, #9face6), re-interpolate it in oklch, and tell me the worst-case contrast for white text

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