CSS Gradient Generator

Generate CSS gradients free online -- linear and radial, with multiple color stops and adjustable angle. Live preview with ready-to-copy CSS code, no signup needed.

Angle: 90deg

Browser only.

How to Use This Tool

Choose linear or radialPick the gradient style you need

Add and adjust color stopsBuild a 2+ color transition

Copy the generated CSSReady to paste into your stylesheet

Visual Gradient Building, Real CSS Output

Writing gradient CSS by hand means mentally tracking color stop positions and angle values without seeing the result until you save and refresh. This generator gives an immediate live preview as you adjust colors, positions, and angle, with the exact corresponding CSS always visible and ready to copy.

Linear Versus Radial -- Different Visual Languages

A linear gradient reads as directional movement across a surface, useful for backgrounds that should feel like they're flowing in a specific direction. A radial gradient reads as emanating from a point, useful for spotlight effects, glows, or vignette-style treatments where the visual focus should be centered.

Multiple Color Stops for Richer Transitions

A simple two-color gradient is the most common case, but CSS supports any number of color stops at any position along the gradient. Adding a third or fourth color, or adjusting stop positions to cluster colors unevenly, opens up more nuanced visual effects than a simple linear blend.

Frequently Asked Questions

Linear gradients transition colors along a straight line at a specified angle. Radial gradients transition colors outward from a center point in a circular or elliptical pattern. Each suits different visual effects -- linear for directional backgrounds, radial for spotlight or glow-style effects.

CSS gradients support any number of color stops, each with its own position along the gradient. This generator lets you add as many as you need, giving you control over multi-color transitions, not just simple two-color blends.

The angle determines the direction colors transition across the element -- 0deg goes bottom to top, 90deg goes left to right, and any value in between creates a diagonal transition. Getting the angle right is often the difference between a gradient looking intentional versus awkward.

Yes, the standard linear-gradient() and radial-gradient() CSS functions this generates are well-supported across all current major browsers without needing vendor prefixes.

The gradient functions themselves work in any CSS property accepting an image value, including background-image, border-image, and (with additional CSS like background-clip: text) even text fill effects, though this generator's preview specifically shows the background use case.