CSS gradient presets
Eight starting points chosen to be adjusted rather than shipped verbatim: tap one into the editor, nudge a stop toward your brand, copy the CSS.
Guide
How to use it
- Tap a preset in the gallery, it loads into the editor above with its stops editable.
- Swap the nearest stop to your brand colour (paste its hex into the colour input).
- Adjust the angle to your layout, gradients usually read best darkening toward the text.
- Copy the CSS. The fallback line rides along automatically.
Examples
What the presets demonstrate
Three-stop gradients with an unequal middle position, the technique that stops a gradient looking like a default. Steal the structure, replace the hues.
The quiet two-stop workhorses: near-neighbour colours for surfaces and headers that want depth without shouting. Most production gradients are these.
The conic preset returns to its start hue so the wheel closes seamlessly, the trick for any wrap-around conic: first and last stops matching.
Method
How it works
Each preset is a stops-plus-angle recipe from this site’s own palette family, loaded into the same generator as the main page, nothing here is an image, and nothing needs attribution.
Curation beats catalogues for gradients: a hundred presets teach nothing, eight structures (subtle pair, branded diagonal, radial glow, conic wheel…) cover what pages actually need, and each is one colour-swap from yours.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can I use these commercially?
Freely, CSS gradients are code, not copyrightable artwork in any practical sense, and these are published to be taken.
How do I match a preset to my brand?
Replace the dominant stop with your brand hex, then move the neighbouring stop toward it in hue (the color picker’s HSL view makes "same hue, darker" one number).
Why do some presets use three stops?
A third stop controls the journey’s middle, where two-stop gradients sag into grey between complementary colours, a warm middle stop keeps them alive.
Which preset for a hero section?
The diagonal two-brand-colour structure (Dusk’s shape). Darken the corner your headline sits in and check contrast at 4.5:1.
Can I save my own presets?
Copy the CSS somewhere you keep snippets, the URL does not store state here, deliberately, gradients belong in your codebase, not a link.
Do these render the same in every browser?
Yes, all three gradient types are long-universal, and colour rendering differences are your monitor’s opinion, not the CSS’s.
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