Colour to colour
Teal to Crimson gradient
Teal (#008080) into Crimson (#dc143c) — 175° 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 175° > 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, #008080 0%, #dc143c 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, #008080 0%, #dc143c 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, #008080 0%, #00817e 8.28%, #008278 16.03%, #00846c 23.35%, #148659 30.32%, #3b853c 37.03%, #5e8100 43.56%, #7d7800 50%, #946e00 56.44%, #a86300 62.97%, #bb5400 69.68%, #d23700 76.65%, #d92517 83.97%, #db1934 91.72%, #dc143c 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: #966561; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.36% 10.38%, rgba(220, 20, 60, 0.702) 0%, rgba(220, 20, 60, 0) 59.89%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 89.98% 56.41%, rgba(0, 128, 128, 0.71) 0%, rgba(0, 128, 128, 0) 48.18%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 86.36% 10.38%, oklch(from #dc143c l c h / 0.7016) 0%, rgb(from #dc143c r g b / 0) 59.89%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 89.98% 56.41%, oklch(from #008080 l c h / 0.7097) 0%, rgb(from #008080 r g b / 0) 48.18%);
Report
- white ink: worst 4.54:1 at 33% (AA); black ink: worst 4.20:1 at 98% (AA-large only) → use white text.
- Banding medium: ~7px bands at 1440px — add grain 12 (≈1% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 9/64 samples left sRGB by more than 5% and were gamut-mapped (oklch shorter); expect slight hue drift there.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #008080 0%, #008375 7.14%, #008566 14.29%, #1c8654 21.43%, #39853e 28.57%, #52821e 35.71%, #697e00 42.86%, #7d7800 50%, #8d7200 57.14%, #9b6b00 64.29%, #a96300 71.43%, #b85700 78.57%, #ca4300 85.71%, #d82900 92.86%, #dc143c 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #dc143c 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#008080] to-[#dc143c]
<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="#008375"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#008566"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#1c8654"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#39853e"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#52821e"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#697e00"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#7d7800"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#8d7200"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#9b6b00"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#a96300"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#b85700"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ca4300"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#d82900"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#dc143c"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"teal-to-crimson": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0,
0.502,
0.502
],
"hex": "#008080"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.863,
0.078,
0.235
],
"hex": "#dc143c"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #dc143c 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "teal-to-crimson",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 4.539,
"at": 0.3333,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 4.199,
"at": 0.9841,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Teal to Crimson, interpolated in oklch."
}
}More from Teal
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 teal to crimson hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md