Published on
January 5, 2024

Best 12 Gradient Tools for Designers [2024]

Sina Sadegh
Co-Founder @ Magic Design

Colour gradients are a great way to add sleek color and depth to a design. They are versatile, easy to use, and can be used in many different ways. They can be subtle or bold, wide or narrow, matte or glossy - the list is endless!

But sometimes it can be difficult to find gradients that work well together.

That's why we have put together 12 tools that will help you create your own gradients and create beautiful designs.

Best Gradient Tools

1. Grabient

Grabient-gradient tool

Grabient is an online tool for creating gradients. It offers a wide range of pre-made gradients that you can quickly and easily customize and download.

Website: https://www.grabient.com/

Type: Free

2. CoolHue 2.0

CoolHue 2.0-gradient tool

CoolHue is a tool that allows you to create great color palettes for your projects.

Website: https://webkul.github.io/coolhue/

Type: Free

3. Gradienta

Gradienta

182 carefully crafted gradients for free use in your designs.

Website: https://gradienta.io/

Type: Free

4. Gradient Hunt

Gradient Hunt-gradient tool

Gradient Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy, handmade gradients.

Website: https://gradienthunt.com/

Type: Free

5. WebGradients

WebGradients-gradient tool

WebGradients is a free collection of 180 linear gradients that you can use as backgrounds for content on any area of your website. Simply copy the CSS3 code for cross-browser compatibility and use it in no time. There is also a PNG version of each gradient. As a bonus, there are packages for Sketch & Photoshop.

Website: https://webgradients.com/

Type: Free

6. Gradihunt

Gradihunt-gradient tool

Website with millions of automatically generated gradients.

Website: https://gradihunt.com/

Type: Free

7. CSS Gradient

CSS Gradient-gradient tool

CSS Gradient is a website and free tool that allows you to create gradient backgrounds for websites. The website is not only a CSS gradient generator but also packed with colourful content about gradients, from technical articles to real gradient examples like Stripe and Instagram.

Website: https://cssgradient.io/

Type: Free

8. Mesh Gradients

Mesh Gradients-gradient tool

With Mesh Gradients, you can download 100 free mesh gradients in .sketch, .png, .ai, .jpg, .eps formats.

Website: https://products.ls.graphics/mesh-gradients/

Type: Free

9. Meshgradients

Meshgradients-gradient tool

Meshgradients is a tool that offers a collection of Mesh Gradient collections.

Website: https://www.meshgradients.design/

Type: Free

10. Design Gradients

Design Gradients-gradient tool

A free platform with 48 linear gradients selected by designers for use as backgrounds for digital artworks.

Website: https://www.designgradients.com/

Type: Free

11. Ingradients

Ingradients-gradient tool

Selected mesh gradients for your next design project, website, flyer, app, wallpaper, brochure, etc., for download and use.

Website: https://ingradients.net/

Type: Free + Paid Options

12. Gradientos

Gradientos-gradient tool

With Gradientos, you can quickly test how different gradients would look on some common UI elements and copy them directly if needed.

Website: https://www.gradientos.app/editor

Type: Free

About the author
Sina Sadegh
Co-Founder @ Magic Design
I have always been passionate about Startups and Design. In the past I have worked as a Chief of Staff at SellerX, Europe’s leading aggregator of e-commerce businesses based in Berlin and for Rocket Internet, Finanzcheck and Outfittery. I have been active in the design space since 2019.