Colour to colour
Turquoise to Plum gradient
Turquoise (#40e0d0) into Plum (#dda0dd) — 141° 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 141° > 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%, #dda0dd 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%, #dda0dd 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%, #3ee0d3 8.28%, #39dedb 16.03%, #39dce6 23.35%, #44d7f3 30.32%, #59d1ff 37.03%, #72caff 43.56%, #8ac1ff 50%, #a1b9ff 56.44%, #b5b1ff 62.97%, #c4abf9 69.68%, #cfa6ef 76.65%, #d7a3e6 83.97%, #dca1df 91.72%, #dda0dd 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: #a8c3d7; background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 6.97% 82.98%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0.818) 0%, rgba(64, 224, 208, 0) 54.96%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 78.47% 72.79%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0.88) 0%, rgba(221, 160, 221, 0) 59.46%); background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 6.97% 82.98%, oklch(from #40e0d0 l c h / 0.8179) 0%, rgb(from #40e0d0 r g b / 0) 54.96%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 78.47% 72.79%, oklch(from #dda0dd l c h / 0.8802) 0%, rgb(from #dda0dd r g b / 0) 59.46%);
Report
- white ink: worst 1.64:1 at 1% (fails AA); black ink: worst 10.13:1 at 99% (AA) → use black text.
- Banding high: ~9px bands at 1440px — add grain 19 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
- 21/64 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, #40e0d0 0%, #38dede 7.14%, #3bdaea 14.29%, #47d6f5 21.43%, #57d2fe 28.57%, #69cdff 35.71%, #7ac7ff 42.86%, #8ac1ff 50%, #9abcff 57.14%, #a8b6ff 64.29%, #b6b1ff 71.43%, #c2acfb 78.57%, #cca7f3 85.71%, #d5a3e8 92.86%, #dda0dd 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #40e0d0 0%, #dda0dd 100%);
}bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#40e0d0] to-[#dda0dd]
<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="#38dede"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#3bdaea"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#47d6f5"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#57d2fe"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#69cdff"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#7ac7ff"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#8ac1ff"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#9abcff"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#a8b6ff"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#b6b1ff"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#c2acfb"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#cca7f3"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#d5a3e8"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#dda0dd"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
{
"turquoise-to-plum": {
"$type": "gradient",
"$value": [
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.251,
0.878,
0.816
],
"hex": "#40e0d0"
},
"position": 0
},
{
"color": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.867,
0.627,
0.867
],
"hex": "#dda0dd"
},
"position": 1
}
],
"$extensions": {
"com.brandsweets": {
"kind": "linear",
"css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #40e0d0 0%, #dda0dd 100%)",
"interpolation": "oklch",
"hue": "shorter",
"angle": 135,
"name": "turquoise-to-plum",
"contrast": {
"white": {
"ratio": 1.64,
"at": 0.0088,
"passesAA": false,
"passesAALarge": false
},
"black": {
"ratio": 10.126,
"at": 0.9949,
"passesAA": true,
"passesAALarge": true
},
"suggestedInk": "#000000"
}
}
},
"$description": "Turquoise to Plum, 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