Colour to colour
Tan to Sky Blue gradient
Tan (#d2b48c) into Sky Blue (#87ceeb) — 151° 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 151° > 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, #d2b48c 0%, #87ceeb 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, #d2b48c 0%, #87ceeb 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, #d2b48c 0%, #d1b58c 8.28%, #ceb78a 16.03%, #c9ba8a 23.35%, #c1be8c 30.32%, #b7c390 37.03%, #aac899 43.56%, #9dcca6 50%, #90cfb4 56.44%, #86d0c3 62.97%, #81d1d1 69.68%, #81d0dc 76.65%, #83cfe4 83.97%, #86cee9 91.72%, #87ceeb 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: #b1c2bd; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 11.68% 34.62%, rgba(135, 206, 235, 0.813) 0%, rgba(135, 206, 235, 0) 56.82%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 73.22% 51.45%, rgba(210, 180, 140, 0.861) 0%, rgba(210, 180, 140, 0) 47.12%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 11.68% 34.62%, oklch(from #87ceeb l c h / 0.813) 0%, rgb(from #87ceeb r g b / 0) 56.82%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 73.22% 51.45%, oklch(from #d2b48c l c h / 0.8611) 0%, rgb(from #d2b48c r g b / 0) 47.12%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.74:1 at 98% (fails AA); black ink: worst 10.62:1 at 1% (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, #d2b48c 0%, #cdb78a 7.14%, #c7bb8a 14.29%, #c0bf8c 21.43%, #b8c290 28.57%, #afc696 35.71%, #a6c99d 42.86%, #9dcca6 50%, #94ceaf 57.14%, #8ccfb9 64.29%, #86d0c4 71.43%, #82d1cf 78.57%, #80d1d9 85.71%, #82d0e2 92.86%, #87ceeb 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #d2b48c 0%, #87ceeb 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#d2b48c] to-[#87ceeb]
<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="#cdb78a"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#c7bb8a"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#c0bf8c"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#b8c290"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#afc696"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#a6c99d"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#9dcca6"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#94ceaf"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#8ccfb9"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#86d0c4"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#82d1cf"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#80d1d9"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#82d0e2"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#87ceeb"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"tan-to-skyblue": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.824,
0.706,
0.549
],
"hex": "#d2b48c"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.529,
0.808,
0.922
],
"hex": "#87ceeb"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #d2b48c 0%, #87ceeb 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "tan-to-skyblue",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.736,
"at": 0.9797,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 10.618,
"at": 0.0105,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Tan to Sky Blue, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Tan
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 tan to sky blue hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md