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CSS definitely supports gradients in theory but perhaps the way they work is not to the liking of designers / their audience / their clients https://www.w3scho

• XaspR8d 8y ago
  CSS gradients have 2 notable annoyances: - Simple horizontal, vertical, or radial gradients can rarely capture the "organic" look that most designers want (the gradients of real materials and scenes are highly uneven so perfect symmetry has a distinctly artificial appearance). - I'm not sure if it's actually an aspect of the spec, but all implementations I've seen interpolate the colors in RGB or an RGB-like colorspace. This can have the effect of creating dramatic jumps or ridges. With a lot of trial and error (or color math) you can overcome this by using custom stop values, but it's much simpler and more in-line with a designer's toolset to be using colorspaces whose linear interpolations are more perceptually uniform. Of course there's also the "standard drawback" of modern webdev too: it's often easier to just throw assets at the problem. :/ (Thoughts from a design-adjacent dev.)
  • systoll 8y ago
    That is part of the spec. CSS colour 4 allows colours to be defined in using different colourspaces, but the gradient spec continues to dictate linear interpolation of the RGB values.