Colour to colour
Sky Blue to Dark Salmon gradient
Sky Blue (#87ceeb) into Dark Salmon (#e9967a) — 174° 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 174° > 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, #87ceeb 0%, #e9967a 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, #87ceeb 0%, #e9967a 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, #87ceeb 0%, #88cdec 8.28%, #8bcaf0 16.03%, #93c6f4 23.35%, #9ec0f7 30.32%, #adb8f6 37.03%, #bdaff0 43.56%, #cda7e4 50%, #db9fd3 56.44%, #e49abe 62.97%, #ea96a9 69.68%, #ec9596 76.65%, #eb9587 83.97%, #ea967d 91.72%, #e9967a 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: #c1b5b4; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 80.42% 79.62%, rgba(233, 150, 122, 0.71) 0%, rgba(233, 150, 122, 0) 53.31%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.57% 40.8%, rgba(135, 206, 235, 0.75) 0%, rgba(135, 206, 235, 0) 53%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 80.42% 79.62%, oklch(from #e9967a l c h / 0.7099) 0%, rgb(from #e9967a r g b / 0) 53.31%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 41.57% 40.8%, oklch(from #87ceeb l c h / 0.7495) 0%, rgb(from #87ceeb r g b / 0) 53%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.74:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 9.11:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~13px bands at 1440px — add grain 27 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #87ceeb 0%, #8dc9f1 7.14%, #96c4f5 14.29%, #a0bef7 21.43%, #acb8f7 28.57%, #b7b2f3 35.71%, #c3aced 42.86%, #cda7e4 50%, #d7a2d9 57.14%, #df9dcc 64.29%, #e599bd 71.43%, #e997ad 78.57%, #ec959c 85.71%, #eb958b 92.86%, #e9967a 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #87ceeb 0%, #e9967a 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#87ceeb] to-[#e9967a]
<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="#87ceeb"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#8dc9f1"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#96c4f5"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#a0bef7"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#acb8f7"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#b7b2f3"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#c3aced"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#cda7e4"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#d7a2d9"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#df9dcc"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#e599bd"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#e997ad"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ec959c"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#eb958b"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#e9967a"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"skyblue-to-darksalmon": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.529,
0.808,
0.922
],
"hex": "#87ceeb"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.914,
0.588,
0.478
],
"hex": "#e9967a"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #87ceeb 0%, #e9967a 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "skyblue-to-darksalmon",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.737,
"at": 0.0082,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 9.108,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Sky Blue to Dark Salmon, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Sky 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
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