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Tomato to Gold gradient

Tomato (#ff6347) into Gold (#ffd700) — 63° 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.

Tomato → Gold
black text · worst 7.13:1 · AA
white 1.40 failsblack 7.13 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 1.40 failsblack 7.13 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff6347 0%, #ffd700 100%)
Aa

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 1.40 failsblack 7.13 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #ff6347 0%, #ffd700 100%)

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

sRGB88%
OKLab84%
OKLCH90%

Eased and mesh

Aa

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 1.40 failsblack 7.13 AAbanding high
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff6347 0%, #ff6547 8.28%, #ff6b46 16.03%, #ff7345 23.35%, #ff7d43 30.32%, #ff8940 37.03%, #ff953d 43.56%, #ffa138 50%, #ffad33 56.44%, #ffb82c 62.97%, #ffc225 69.68%, #ffca1b 76.65%, #ffd111 83.97%, #ffd505 91.72%, #ffd700 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 1.78 failsblack 9.80 AAbanding low
css
background-color: #ffa138;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 21.67% 98.73%, rgba(255, 99, 71, 0.751) 0%, rgba(255, 99, 71, 0) 59.64%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 52.19% 38.06%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0.784) 0%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0) 58.52%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 21.67% 98.73%, oklch(from #ff6347 l c h / 0.7512) 0%, rgb(from #ff6347 r g b / 0) 59.64%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 52.19% 38.06%, oklch(from #ffd700 l c h / 0.7839) 0%, rgb(from #ffd700 r g b / 0) 58.52%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.40:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 7.13:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding high: ~12px bands at 1440px — add grain 26 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #ff6347 0%, #ff6d46 7.14%, #ff7644 14.29%, #ff7f42 21.43%, #ff8840 28.57%, #ff903e 35.71%, #ff993b 42.86%, #ffa138 50%, #ffa935 57.14%, #ffb131 64.29%, #ffb82c 71.43%, #ffc026 78.57%, #ffc81f 85.71%, #ffcf14 92.86%, #ffd700 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff6347 0%, #ffd700 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#ff6347] to-[#ffd700]
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="#ff6347"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#ff6d46"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#ff7644"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#ff7f42"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#ff8840"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ff903e"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ff993b"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ffa138"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ffa935"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ffb131"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ffb82c"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ffc026"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#ffc81f"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#ffcf14"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#ffd700"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "tomato-to-gold": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.388,
            0.278
          ],
          "hex": "#ff6347"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            1,
            0.843,
            0
          ],
          "hex": "#ffd700"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #ff6347 0%, #ffd700 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklab",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "tomato-to-gold",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.403,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 7.128,
            "at": 0,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Tomato to Gold, interpolated in oklab."
  }
}

More from Tomato

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 tomato to gold hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands

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