CSS Gradient Generator — Free Online Tool

The CSS Gradient Generator builds linear and radial gradients visually — pick your colours, drag the stops, set the angle — and gives you the CSS to paste, with a live preview updating as you adjust. Writing gradient syntax by hand and reloading to see the result is a slow loop for something so visual.

The thing that separates a gradient that looks expensive from one that looks like a 2010 web template is usually colour distance rather than technique. Two colours far apart on the wheel blended directly pass through a muddy desaturated middle, because interpolation in sRGB cuts straight through the middle of the colour space. Gradients between hues that are near each other, or between two shades of the same hue, avoid that entirely — which is why so much modern UI uses gradients that are almost subtle enough to miss.

Angle and colour-stop position are the other two controls that matter. A stop pushed to 80% keeps most of the area in the first colour with a fast transition at the end, which reads very differently from an even 50/50 blend at the same angle. Adding a third stop is usually where a gradient starts looking deliberate rather than default.

The preview renders live in your browser and the generated CSS is standard, with no vendor prefixes needed for any browser still in use.

Our CSS Gradient Generator is completely free to use with no signup required. For this tool, processing runs in your browser — your files and data stay on your device and are not uploaded to our servers.

Whether you are a developer, designer, student, or business owner, this tool is designed to save you time and make your workflow more efficient. Bookmark this page to access it whenever you need it — it will always be free.