Gradient Collection Browser

The gradient collection browser presents twelve ready-made two-color gradients with their hex pairs and a one-click copy of each as a CSS background declaration.

What is Gradient Collection Browser?

• The gradient collection browser lays twelve gradients out in a responsive grid, three across on a wide screen.
• Each entry is a card with the gradient rendered across the top and its two hex values beneath, shown as one arrow to the other.
• The copy button on a card takes the full declaration rather than just the colours, so one click puts a usable background into the clipboard.

The set covers a wide spread of colour relationships on purpose. There are warm sunset pairs, such as a red-orange running into a deep pink, and a yellow-gold into a burnt orange. There are cool pairs, including a deep navy into a bright cyan, and a sky blue into a saturated blue. There are the more stylised combinations — a violet into magenta, a dark purple into a muted mauve, an aqua into a vivid green — and there are deliberately subdued options, such as a near-black into a slate blue, for when a gradient should sit behind content rather than compete with it. That range is the point of a preset library: between them, the twelve cover the moods most projects actually need.

Every gradient in the collection is drawn on the same diagonal, one hundred and thirty-five degrees, which runs from top left to bottom right. Fixing the angle is a sensible choice for a browser, because it makes the presets comparable to one another — you are judging the colour pairing, not the direction — and it means every copied declaration has the same shape, so swapping one preset for another in a stylesheet is a one-line change.

The workflow is deliberately short. Scroll the grid, find the pair that matches the mood, and either copy the declaration as-is or copy it and edit the ones you want to keep. Because the card shows the two hex values beside the preview, it doubles as a way to lift just one colour out of a gradient: read the code, take it to a format converter, and use it as a flat colour elsewhere. That is often the more useful outcome, since a pair that works as a gradient is frequently a pair that works as an accent and a surface.

Being clear about what it is not: a browser, not a builder. Nothing here is editable, and there is no search, filtering or sorting — the twelve are presented as a fixed grid in a fixed order. Nor is it a searchable library in the sense of hundreds of entries: it is a small curated set, which is a reasonable trade, because a page of twelve gradients is browsable at a glance while a page of two hundred is a search problem. If you want to generate a gradient from your own colours, a builder is the right tool; if you want to modify one of these, the angle adjuster and the stop editor both accept the same syntax.

Used as a source of css gradient presets, then, this is a fast route from a blank backdrop to something finished: browse css gradients, copy gradient css, and adjust afterwards if needed. As a gradient library it is small on purpose, and as a starting point for a hero background, an avatar placeholder or a card header it covers more ground than its twelve entries suggest.

How to use Gradient Collection Browser

1. Scroll the grid and pick the pair whose mood matches what you need.
2. Read the two hex values on the card if you only want one of the colours.
3. Press copy to take the full background declaration, including the angle and both stops.
4. Adjust the angle or the stops in a gradient builder if the preset needs adapting.

When to use Gradient Collection Browser vs related tools

Use this when you want a finished gradient quickly and are happy to work from an existing pair of colours. Use a gradient generator when the colours come from your own palette, or the image gradient tool when they should come from a photograph. A preset whose stops or angle need moving is the gradient color stop editor's job, and a ramp that has to be delivered as a file rather than a declaration is what the CSS gradient to image exporter writes out.

Privacy & Security

This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data ever leaves your device. There is no server round-trip, no upload, no logging, and no account required. Your input is processed locally using client-side JavaScript and is never stored, transmitted, or accessible to anyone else. When you close the tab, everything disappears.

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