Colour to colour
Turquoise to Light Coral gradient
Turquoise (#40e0d0) into Light Coral (#f08080) — 164° 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 164° > 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, #40e0d0 0%, #f08080 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%, #f08080 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, #40e0d0 0%, #43e0cc 8.28%, #4ddfc0 16.03%, #5edcad 23.35%, #76d795 30.32%, #92d079 37.03%, #adc55d 43.56%, #c5b946 50%, #d9ab3c 56.44%, #e69e43 62.97%, #ee9253 69.68%, #f18a64 76.65%, #f28473 83.97%, #f1817d 91.72%, #f08080 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: #b9b5a8; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 29.99% 8.68%, rgba(240, 128, 128, 0.739) 0%, rgba(240, 128, 128, 0) 55.39%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 40.19% 83.93%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0.874) 0%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0) 49.13%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 29.99% 8.68%, oklch(from #f08080 l c h / 0.7388) 0%, rgb(from #f08080 r g b / 0) 55.39%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 40.19% 83.93%, oklch(from #40e0d0 l c h / 0.8743) 0%, rgb(from #40e0d0 r g b / 0) 49.13%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.64:1 at 0% (fails AA); black ink: worst 8.10:1 at 100% (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%, #51debb 7.14%, #66dba6 14.29%, #7bd690 21.43%, #90d07b 28.57%, #a4c967 35.71%, #b5c155 42.86%, #c5b946 50%, #d3af3d 57.14%, #dea63c 64.29%, #e79d43 71.43%, #ed944f 78.57%, #f18c5f 85.71%, #f2856f 92.86%, #f08080 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #40e0d0 0%, #f08080 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#40e0d0] to-[#f08080]
<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="#51debb"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#66dba6"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#7bd690"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#90d07b"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#a4c967"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#b5c155"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#c5b946"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#d3af3d"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#dea63c"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#e79d43"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ed944f"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#f18c5f"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#f2856f"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#f08080"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"turquoise-to-lightcoral": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.251,
0.878,
0.816
],
"hex": "#40e0d0"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.941,
0.502,
0.502
],
"hex": "#f08080"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #40e0d0 0%, #f08080 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "turquoise-to-lightcoral",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.642,
"at": 0,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 8.099,
"at": 0.9979,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Turquoise to Light Coral, interpolated in oklch."
}
}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
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Machine-readable: gradients.md