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Yellow Green to Mauve gradient

Yellow Green (#9acd32) into Mauve (#e0b0ff) — 175° 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 175° > 140° — interpolating in oklch (shorter hue) keeps the midpoint saturated.

Yellow Green → Mauve
black text · worst 10.39:1 · AA
white 1.78 failsblack 10.39 AAbanding medium

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 1.77 failsblack 11.15 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklab, #9acd32 0%, #e0b0ff 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 1.78 failsblack 10.39 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9acd32 0%, #e0b0ff 100%)

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

sRGB11%
OKLab5%
OKLCH77%

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 1.77 failsblack 10.39 AAbanding medium
css
linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9acd32 0%, #a1cc2a 8.28%, #b3c708 16.03%, #cac000 23.35%, #e3b600 30.32%, #f9ab12 37.03%, #ffa14a 43.56%, #ff9f7b 50%, #ff9d9d 56.44%, #ff9bba 62.97%, #ffa0d5 69.68%, #f5a6e9 76.65%, #eaabf6 83.97%, #e3affd 91.72%, #e0b0ff 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 1.81 failsblack 11.21 AAbanding high
css
background-color: #bdc3ab;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 70.7% 23.1%, rgba(154, 205, 50, 0.7) 0%, rgba(154, 205, 50, 0) 53.07%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 35.71% 24.44%, rgba(224, 176, 255, 0.805) 0%, rgba(224, 176, 255, 0) 52.63%);
background-image: radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 70.7% 23.1%, oklch(from #9acd32 l c h / 0.7002) 0%, rgb(from #9acd32 r g b / 0) 53.07%), radial-gradient(circle farthest-corner at 35.71% 24.44%, oklch(from #e0b0ff l c h / 0.8053) 0%, rgb(from #e0b0ff r g b / 0) 52.63%);

Report

  • white ink: worst 1.78:1 at 100% (fails AA); black ink: worst 10.39:1 at 44% (AA) → use black text.
  • Banding medium: ~7px bands at 1440px — add grain 13 (≈2% soft-light noise) or shorten the ramp.
  • 26/64 samples left sRGB by more than 5% and were gamut-mapped (oklch shorter); expect slight hue drift there.

Export

css
.gradient {
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #9acd32 0%, #b9c500 7.14%, #d3bd00 14.29%, #e7b400 21.43%, #f8ac0c 28.57%, #ffa539 35.71%, #ffa05b 42.86%, #ff9f7b 50%, #ff9e93 57.14%, #ff9da8 64.29%, #ff9bbc 71.43%, #ff9fd1 78.57%, #f9a4e3 85.71%, #edaaf3 92.86%, #e0b0ff 100%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9acd32 0%, #e0b0ff 100%);
}
tailwind v4
bg-linear-to-br/oklch from-[#9acd32] to-[#e0b0ff]
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="#9acd32"/><stop offset="7.14%" stop-color="#b9c500"/><stop offset="14.29%" stop-color="#d3bd00"/><stop offset="21.43%" stop-color="#e7b400"/><stop offset="28.57%" stop-color="#f8ac0c"/><stop offset="35.71%" stop-color="#ffa539"/><stop offset="42.86%" stop-color="#ffa05b"/><stop offset="50%" stop-color="#ff9f7b"/><stop offset="57.14%" stop-color="#ff9e93"/><stop offset="64.29%" stop-color="#ff9da8"/><stop offset="71.43%" stop-color="#ff9bbc"/><stop offset="78.57%" stop-color="#ff9fd1"/><stop offset="85.71%" stop-color="#f9a4e3"/><stop offset="92.86%" stop-color="#edaaf3"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#e0b0ff"/></linearGradient></defs><rect width="1440" height="600" fill="url(#bs-gradient)"/></svg>
dtcg
{
  "yellowgreen-to-mauve": {
    "$type": "gradient",
    "$value": [
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.604,
            0.804,
            0.196
          ],
          "hex": "#9acd32"
        },
        "position": 0
      },
      {
        "color": {
          "colorSpace": "srgb",
          "components": [
            0.878,
            0.69,
            1
          ],
          "hex": "#e0b0ff"
        },
        "position": 1
      }
    ],
    "$extensions": {
      "com.brandsweets": {
        "kind": "linear",
        "css": "linear-gradient(135deg in oklch shorter hue, #9acd32 0%, #e0b0ff 100%)",
        "interpolation": "oklch",
        "hue": "shorter",
        "angle": 135,
        "name": "yellowgreen-to-mauve",
        "contrast": {
          "white": {
            "ratio": 1.776,
            "at": 1,
            "passesAA": false,
            "passesAALarge": false
          },
          "black": {
            "ratio": 10.388,
            "at": 0.443,
            "passesAA": true,
            "passesAALarge": true
          },
          "suggestedInk": "#000000"
        }
      }
    },
    "$description": "Yellow Green to Mauve, interpolated in oklch."
  }
}

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