Why Gradie's colour switcher does two things at once (and why that's not a bug)

Hey. I’m Emmanuel . I built a little app. Nothing super complex. It does one thing and it does it well (if I do say so myself). It’s called Gradie . Upload an image, and Gradie will get the five most prominent colours from that image and use them to create a bunch of custom gradients. Sounds great, yeah? This is me doing promo, I guess? Before this, I posted three demo videos on Twitter, BlueSky, and, of course, LinkedIn. Well, I don’t have any videos today, so here’s an article instead. My first in years! So let’s talk about one very specific design decision I made while building Gradie. And why, even though it might seem a little off at first glance, I’m sticking by it. Before I started building Gradie, here’s the only type of gradient I knew about: .gradie-theme { background : linear-gradient ( 180deg , #eeedea , #ee6495 ); } I knew nothing about conic , radial , the repeating-* variants, colour interpolation , etc. So yeah, I was wearing a big cap with “Noob” on it in block letters