Gradient Generator

📖 Tool Introduction

Gradient Generator is an online CSS gradient studio built for front-end engineers and visual designers who want to compose beautiful linear gradients by simply dragging color stops around, and then export a ready-to-paste linear-gradient declaration. Across the very top sits a large live preview block, so every tweak you make shows up instantly. In the middle you find the angle control, where a slider and a number box keep each other in sync to set the gradient direction. Below is a color bar: every round dot on it is a stop, click one to select it, drag it to move its position along the gradient, and once it is selected you can recolor it with the native picker or fine-tune its position as a percentage. You may freely grow the palette from two stops up to five; adding a stop automatically places it at the midpoint between its current neighbours, which makes it quick to expand a two-color fade into a richer multi-band blend. Stops are sorted by position automatically and turned into a standards-compliant CSS3 declaration, while the browser itself performs the actual color interpolation, so what you preview is exactly what the code produces. The whole tool runs offline, needs no account, and opens straight into an empty canvas ready for your next design. Because the browser owns the actual interpolation, you never have to second-guess whether your hand-typed percentages land exactly where you expect, and moving a stop by a single percent point is reflected both on the preview bar and in the emitted code. The tool is equally useful when you only need a quick two-stop fade for a hero banner and when you are layering several bands to mimic a sunset or a brand wash, so it scales from a ten-second tweak to a deliberate exploration of color transitions.

✨ Key Features

• Drag stops: pull the dots directly on the bar and the gradient follows in real time
• Free angle: any direction from 0 to 360 degrees, 90 horizontal and 180 vertical, slider synced with the number box
• Add or remove stops: between two and five stops, new ones land between neighbours and two are always kept
• Precise positions: every stop can be set to an exact percentage value with zero rounding drift
• Clean standard output: exports a proper linear-gradient with a background property, ready to paste
• One-click example and download: a multi-color preset loads instantly, and the code saves as a .css file

📝 How to Use

1. Drag the angle slider, or type a degree between 0 and 360, to set the direction
2. Click a dot on the bar to select that stop; the active dot highlights and enlarges
3. Recolor the selected stop with the picker, or nudge its position in the percentage box
4. Click Add Stop for more colors, or Remove Stop to drop an extra one
5. Click Copy Code to paste the linear-gradient into your project, or Download CSS to save it

⚠️ Notes

• Stop count: between two and five stops are allowed; out-of-range attempts show a friendly notice
• Sorting: stops are ordered by position in the output automatically, no manual sorting needed
• Angle period: the angle wraps around 360 degrees, so 400 is normalized to 40
• Local only: rendering and code generation happen in your browser with no network request
• Compatibility: the syntax is modern CSS3; add vendor prefixes yourself for very old engines