Colour to colour
Turquoise to Khaki gradient
Turquoise (#40e0d0) into Khaki (#f0e68c) — 82° 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.
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, #40e0d0 0%, #f0e68c 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, #40e0d0 0%, #f0e68c 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 oklab, #40e0d0 0%, #45e0cf 8.28%, #53e1cd 16.03%, #63e1c9 23.35%, #76e2c5 30.32%, #88e3bf 37.03%, #9ae4b9 43.56%, #abe5b2 50%, #bbe5aa 56.44%, #c9e6a3 62.97%, #d6e69c 69.68%, #e1e696 76.65%, #e9e691 83.97%, #eee68d 91.72%, #f0e68c 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: #abe5b2; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 18.74% 86.59%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0.8) 0%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0) 58.76%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 44.37% 14.6%, rgba(240, 230, 140, 0.701) 0%, rgba(240, 230, 140, 0) 57.03%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 18.74% 86.59%, oklch(from #40e0d0 l c h / 0.7995) 0%, rgb(from #40e0d0 r g b / 0) 58.76%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 44.37% 14.6%, oklch(from #f0e68c l c h / 0.7011) 0%, rgb(from #f0e68c r g b / 0) 57.03%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.28:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 12.79:1 at 0% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~8px bands at 1440px — add grain 16 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
Export
.gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #40e0d0 0%, #57e1cc 7.14%, #69e2c8 14.29%, #79e2c4 21.43%, #87e3bf 28.57%, #94e4bb 35.71%, #a0e4b6 42.86%, #abe5b2 50%, #b6e5ad 57.14%, #c0e5a8 64.29%, #cae6a3 71.43%, #d4e69d 78.57%, #dde698 85.71%, #e7e692 92.86%, #f0e68c 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #40e0d0 0%, #f0e68c 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklab from-[#40e0d0] to-[#f0e68c]
<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="#40e0d0"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#57e1cc"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#69e2c8"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#79e2c4"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#87e3bf"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#94e4bb"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#a0e4b6"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#abe5b2"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#b6e5ad"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#c0e5a8"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#cae6a3"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#d4e69d"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#dde698"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#e7e692"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#f0e68c"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"turquoise-to-khaki": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.251,
0.878,
0.816
],
"hex": "#40e0d0"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.941,
0.902,
0.549
],
"hex": "#f0e68c"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #40e0d0 0%, #f0e68c 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklab",
"angle": 135,
"name": "turquoise-to-khaki",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.28,
"at": 1,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 12.791,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Turquoise to Khaki, interpolated in oklab."
}
}More from Turquoise
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 turquoise to khaki hero gradient in oklch that passes AA for white text, with grain if it bands
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Machine-readable: gradients.md