--- title: Make Beautiful Gradients | daily.dev description: In the RGB color space, we create colors by mixing three channels: red, green, and blue. All three channels converge towards their middle value, 127.5. By... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/make-beautiful-gradients--gv2msb26 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Make Beautiful Gradients | daily.dev og:description: In the RGB color space, we create colors by mixing three channels: red, green, and blue. All three channels converge towards their middle value, 127.5. By... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/make-beautiful-gradients--gv2msb26 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/_gv2mSb26.png og:image:alt: Make Beautiful Gradients og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Make Beautiful Gradients **[Josh W Comeau](https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau)** · 5 min read · 167 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary In the RGB color space, we create colors by mixing three channels: red, green, and blue. All three channels converge towards their middle value, 127.5. By mixing two highly-saturated colors together, we wind up with gray. What if there was a way to mix only the pigment and keep the saturation consistent? ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@lorezz** · 1 upvotes > Nice gradients, the author also created a gradient's generator to play with **@chrismachinery** · 1 upvotes > Worth the read for the info and he takes the hard work out of the solution to crap gradients. **@devguy51** · 1 upvotes > Love it, saved so much of my time. I also love the gradient generator. **@fxannguyen201** · 0 upvotes > Nice **@mrakcw** · 0 upvotes > Like it 👌 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/make-beautiful-gradients--gv2msb26) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Make Beautiful Gradients","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/make-beautiful-gradients--gv2msb26","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/make-beautiful-gradients--gv2msb26"},"datePublished":"2022-01-11T17:47:19.919Z","dateModified":"2022-01-11T17:47:19.927Z","description":"In the RGB color space, we create colors by mixing three channels: red, green, and blue. 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