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Teal to Burgundy gradient

Teal (#008080) into Burgundy (#800020) — 176° 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 176° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.

Teal → Burgundy
white text · worst 4.77:1 · AA
white 4.77 AAblack 1.94 failsbanding high

OKLab and OKLCH, side by side

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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 4.77 AAblack 1.94 failsbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #008080 0%, #800020 100%)
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OKLCH (shorter hue)

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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 4.77 AAblack 1.94 failsbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #800020 100%)

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

sRGB22%
OKLab4%
OKLCH75%

Eased and mesh

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Eased (soft)

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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 4.77 AAblack 1.94 failsbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #00807d 8.28%, #007f74 16.03%, #007c66 23.35%, #1d7851 30.32%, #377236 37.03%, #4e680b 43.56%, #615b00 50%, #6d4e00 56.44%, #754100 62.97%, #7d3100 69.68%, #831c00 76.65%, #820e0c 83.97%, #81031c 91.72%, #800020 100%)
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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 6.05 AAblack 1.96 failsbanding high
css
background-color: #685250;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 83.58% 92.36%, rgba(128, 0, 32, 0.87) 0%, rgba(128, 0, 32, 0) 58.04%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 32.61% 15.82%, rgba(0, 128, 128, 0.713) 0%, rgba(0, 128, 128, 0) 55.69%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 83.58% 92.36%, oklch(from #800020 l c h / 0.87) 0%, rgb(from #800020 r g b / 0) 58.04%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 32.61% 15.82%, oklch(from #008080 l c h / 0.7129) 0%, rgb(from #008080 r g b / 0) 55.69%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 4.77:1 at 0% (AA); black ink: worst 1.94:1 at 100% (fails AA) → use white text.
  • Banding high: ~11px bands at 1440px — add grain 24 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #008080 0%, #007e71 7.14%, #097b5f 14.29%, #22774c 21.43%, #357238 28.57%, #466c1e 35.71%, #556400 42.86%, #615b00 50%, #6a5300 57.14%, #704a00 64.29%, #754000 71.43%, #7b3400 78.57%, #832100 85.71%, #831203 92.86%, #800020 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #800020 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#008080] to-[#800020]
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="#008080"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#007e71"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#097b5f"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#22774c"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#357238"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#466c1e"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#556400"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#615b00"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#6a5300"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#704a00"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#754000"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#7b3400"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#832100"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#831203"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#800020"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "teal-to-burgundy": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0,
            0.502,
            0.502
          ],
          "hex": "#008080"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.502,
            0,
            0.125
          ],
          "hex": "#800020"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #800020 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "teal-to-burgundy",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 4.773,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 1.939,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Teal to Burgundy, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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

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