CSS Gradient Generator
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About CSS Gradient Generator
This tool helps you generate and parse CSS linear and radial gradients.
It is useful for UI design, landing pages, backgrounds, buttons, cards, and visual CSS experiments.
How to use the tool
- Choose linear or radial gradient.
- Set angle, colors, and stop positions.
- Watch the live preview update instantly.
- Copy the generated CSS when it looks right.
- Or paste an existing gradient into the input and click Parse.
Tips
- Linear gradients are useful for buttons, cards, and hero backgrounds.
- Radial gradients are useful for glow, spotlight, and soft background effects.
- Changing stop positions can make the transition smoother or sharper.
- Strong contrast between colors makes gradients more dramatic.
CSS gradient checks before using generated color transitions
Gradient quality depends on color space, stop placement, repetition, contrast, and the dimensions of the box where it is rendered.
Inspect color transitions
Check banding, muddy midpoints, transparency over different backgrounds, wide-gamut colors, and interpolation in supported color spaces.
Verify stops and direction
Test implicit and explicit positions, hard stops, angles, radial centers, size keywords, and repeating boundaries for seams or jumps.
Protect content contrast
Measure text, icons, borders, and focus indicators over the weakest section of the gradient in every theme and state.
Test real box sizes
Review narrow, tall, fluid, high-density, zoomed, and printed versions because gradient geometry follows the rendered box.
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