Colour to colour

Tan to Copper gradient

Tan (#d2b48c) into Copper (#b87333) — 14° 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.

Tan → Copper
black text · worst 5.54:1 · AA
white 1.97 failsblack 5.54 AAbanding high

OKLab and OKLCH, side by side

Aa

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.

white 1.97 failsblack 5.54 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #d2b48c 0%, #b87333 100%)
Aa

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.

white 1.97 failsblack 5.54 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #d2b48c 0%, #b87333 100%)

And the sRGB line most tools draw, for comparison — the number is the chroma that survives at the dullest point.

sRGB71%
OKLab71%
OKLCH71%

Eased and mesh

Aa

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.

white 1.97 failsblack 5.54 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #d2b48c 0%, #d2b38b 8.28%, #d1b087 16.03%, #cfac82 23.35%, #cda77b 30.32%, #cba173 37.03%, #c99a6b 43.56%, #c69462 50%, #c38d58 56.44%, #c0864f 62.97%, #be8047 69.68%, #bb7b3f 76.65%, #ba7739 83.97%, #b87435 91.72%, #b87333 100%)
Aa

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.

white 2.32 failsblack 7.42 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #c69462;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 93.77% 24.51%, rgba(184, 115, 51, 0.719) 0%, rgba(184, 115, 51, 0) 52.86%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 4.4% 31.66%, rgba(210, 180, 140, 0.726) 0%, rgba(210, 180, 140, 0) 45.17%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 93.77% 24.51%, oklch(from #b87333 l c h / 0.7193) 0%, rgb(from #b87333 r g b / 0) 52.86%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 4.4% 31.66%, oklch(from #d2b48c l c h / 0.7263) 0%, rgb(from #d2b48c r g b / 0) 45.17%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.97:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 5.54:1 at 100% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~16px bands at 1440px — add grain 33 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #d2b48c 0%, #d0af86 7.14%, #cfab80 14.29%, #cda67a 21.43%, #cba174 28.57%, #c99d6e 35.71%, #c89868 42.86%, #c69462 50%, #c48f5b 57.14%, #c28a55 64.29%, #c0864f 71.43%, #be8148 78.57%, #bc7c41 85.71%, #ba783a 92.86%, #b87333 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #d2b48c 0%, #b87333 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#d2b48c] to-[#b87333]
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="210" y1="-210" x2="1230" y2="810"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="#d2b48c"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#d0af86"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#cfab80"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#cda67a"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#cba174"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#c99d6e"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#c89868"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#c69462"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#c48f5b"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#c28a55"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#c0864f"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#be8148"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#bc7c41"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ba783a"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#b87333"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "tan-to-copper": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.824,
            0.706,
            0.549
          ],
          "hex": "#d2b48c"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.722,
            0.451,
            0.2
          ],
          "hex": "#b87333"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #d2b48c 0%, #b87333 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "tan-to-copper",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.972,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 5.538,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Tan to Copper, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

More from Tan

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

make a tan to copper hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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Machine-readable: gradients.md