Builds a CSS gradient from a type, colour stops, and an angle, with a live preview. Fast, free, and built for simple browser-based workflows.
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Gradient Generator is a free online tool that builds a CSS gradient from a type, colour stops, and an angle, with a live preview as you adjust each control. Set your colours, copy the generated background property, and paste it straight into your stylesheet.
It is useful when you are designing a button, hero section, or card background and want to see the gradient update in real time instead of guessing angle and colour-stop percentages by hand. Switching between linear, radial, and conic gradients on the same colours also makes it easy to compare which style actually fits the layout before committing to one in code. Stops placed close together tighten the blend, and two colours given the same Stop % meet in a hard line -- an easy way to get a split or striped background. A CSS gradient also beats a background image for this job: there is no file to export or host, it stretches to any element size without blurring, and changing a colour later means editing one line instead of redrawing a picture.
Everything runs inside your browser, so the colours and layout you are experimenting with are never sent to a server. That is useful when you are prototyping an unreleased design and do not want draft brand colours or a client's palette showing up anywhere outside your own machine. Linear and radial gradients have worked in every major browser for over a decade; conic gradients are newer, but current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari all support them. If your brand palette is written in RGB or HSL, the Color Converter tool gives you the matching HEX codes.
Choose Linear, Radial, or Conic from Gradient Type.
Drag the Angle slider for linear or conic gradients, or pick a Radial Shape when using radial.
Set Colour 1 and Colour 2 with their Stop %, and tick Add a third colour for a three-stop gradient.
Watch the preview update live, then click Copy CSS to grab the background property. Reset restores the defaults.
Yes! All our tools are 100% free to use with no hidden costs, no registration required, and no credit card needed.
Absolutely. All tools run entirely in your browser (client-side). Your data never leaves your device and is not sent to our servers.
Yes, once the page is loaded, the tool will continue to work even if you lose internet connection since it runs in your browser.
There is no strict character limit, but very large amounts of text (100,000+ characters) may slow down your browser.
Yes! All our tools are free for both personal and commercial use.
A linear gradient moves in a straight line at the angle you set; a radial gradient spreads outward from a centre point in a circle or ellipse; a conic gradient sweeps colours around a centre point like a colour wheel. All three can use the same colour stops.
Angle only applies to linear and conic gradients -- a radial gradient has no directional angle, so the slider disables itself automatically when you switch to Radial and the Radial Shape option takes over instead.
Yes. The Stop % field next to each colour sets its position along the gradient, from 0 to 100. If your stops are out of order, they are sorted automatically so the generated CSS is always valid.
Two by default, or three if you tick "Add a third colour." That covers most CSS gradients; for more complex multi-stop gradients you would need to edit the generated CSS by hand.
A ready-to-use background declaration, such as background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3b82f6 0%, #10b981 100%);, that you can paste directly into a stylesheet or inline style.
Yes. Reset returns every control -- type, angle, shape, colours, and stops -- to its starting default and turns off the third colour if you had enabled it.