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Teal to Maroon gradient
Teal (#008080) into Maroon (#800000) — 166° 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 166° > 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%, #800000 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%, #800000 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%, #00807d 8.28%, #007e75 16.03%, #007c67 23.35%, #167853 30.32%, #307239 37.03%, #476914 43.56%, #5b5d00 50%, #675100 56.44%, #6e4400 62.97%, #743800 69.68%, #7b2800 76.65%, #811200 83.97%, #800500 91.72%, #800000 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: #685347; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 27.28% 96.08%, rgba(128, 0, 0, 0.761) 0%, rgba(128, 0, 0, 0) 45.36%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 44.16% 9.55%, rgba(0, 128, 128, 0.888) 0%, rgba(0, 128, 128, 0) 51%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 27.28% 96.08%, oklch(from #800000 l c h / 0.761) 0%, rgb(from #800000 r g b / 0) 45.36%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 44.16% 9.55%, oklch(from #008080 l c h / 0.8879) 0%, rgb(from #008080 r g b / 0) 51%);
Report
- white ink: worst 4.77:1 at 0% (AA); black ink: worst 1.92:1 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
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #008080 0%, #007e71 7.14%, #007b61 14.29%, #1b774f 21.43%, #2e723b 28.57%, #3f6d24 35.71%, #4e6600 42.86%, #5b5d00 50%, #645500 57.14%, #6a4c00 64.29%, #6f4400 71.43%, #733a00 78.57%, #792e00 85.71%, #801800 92.86%, #800000 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #800000 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#008080] to-[#800000]
<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="#007b61"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#1b774f"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#2e723b"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#3f6d24"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#4e6600"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#5b5d00"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#645500"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#6a4c00"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#6f4400"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#733a00"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#792e00"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#801800"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#800000"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
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"teal-to-maroon": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0,
0.502,
0.502
],
"hex": "#008080"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.502,
0,
0
],
"hex": "#800000"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #008080 0%, #800000 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "teal-to-maroon",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 4.773,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"black": {
"ratio": 1.918,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"suggestedInk": "#ffffff"
}
}
},
"$description": "Teal to Maroon, 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 maroon hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md