CSS Gradient Generator

How this calculator works

A CSS gradient blends two or more colors along a line, a circle or a full rotation, and it is the fastest way to give a page, a banner or a social post a modern background without an image file. This generator builds the CSS for you: pick linear, radial or conic, drag the color stops into place, and copy the finished code. Everything runs in your browser, so there is no upload, no account and no watermark, and the result is a few lines of plain CSS you can paste anywhere.

The three types cover different jobs. Linear gradients run in a straight direction, set by an angle or one of eight direction presets, and they are the workhorse for headers, buttons and hero sections. Radial gradients spread outward from a point, as a circle or an ellipse, which suits glows, spotlights and soft vignettes. Conic gradients rotate around a center point, which is how pie charts, color wheels and rotating borders are made. Each type shares the same stop editor: 2 to 5 colors, each with a color picker, an exact HEX field and a position slider, plus 8 curated presets like sunset, ocean and royal when you want a good-looking result in one click.

Two details make a gradient usable rather than just pretty. First, the tool always emits a background-color fallback line using the first stop, so older browsers still show a solid color instead of nothing. Second, the contrast note under the preview tells you whether dark or light text reads better on your gradient, which matters the moment you put a headline on top of it. For production use, copy the Tailwind arbitrary-value class instead of raw CSS, download a 1200 x 630 PNG for social sharing images, or grab the standalone SVG when you need the gradient as a file.