CSS Gradient Generator
CSS Gradient Generator - a browser-based image tools utility.
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About CSS Gradient Generator
Compose a blend visually and leave with the stylesheet rule behind it, so the browser redraws it at whatever size the element ends up being instead of scaling a flat picture. Free, online, and open without an account or a sign up. The rule is generated inside the page, so nothing is uploaded and nothing arrives watermarked.
How to use it
- Add colour stopsEach has a colour and a position along the gradient line.
- Choose linear or radial and set the angleBoth are reflected in the preview as you change them, including the angle the gradient runs along.
- Copy the ruleReady for a background property. What the preview shows is what the rule renders.
Why CSS beats an exported image here
Written as a rule, a gradient costs a few dozen bytes, redraws crisply at any element size, and changes when you edit one line. Exported as a picture it becomes a download at a fixed resolution and a second file to keep in step with the design. For a flat blend the picture wins nothing.
What it does not do
- Banding appears on large, subtle gradients, particularly in dark tones. It is a limit of eight-bit colour rather than of the CSS.
- Interpolation happens in sRGB by default, so two distant hues pass through a desaturated middle. A stop at the midpoint steers it.
Questions people ask
- Why is there a dull band in the middle of my gradient?
- Two far-apart hues blended directly travel through grey on the way. Placing a third stop halfway, in the colour you want to appear there, steers the blend around it.
- Should I use a CSS gradient or an image?
- CSS, for anything a gradient can express. It is smaller, scales perfectly, and is editable. Reach for an image only when the artwork is genuinely more complex than gradient syntax can describe.
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