Free Mesh Gradient Generator
Pick colors, shuffle the layout, and export a mesh gradient as a PNG, an SVG, or CSS.
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Start from a preset, then make it yours.
Twelve hand-picked palettes to skip the blank canvas. Click one and it loads straight into the generator above, ready to shuffle, recolor, and export.
This Free Tool Is Just the Start
Krumzi designs complete social media graphics and videos from a text description. No templates. No design skills. Just describe what you want and watch AI build it.
Every layout decision. Every color choice. Every font and composition. Done in seconds. Fully editable. Fully yours.
What is a mesh gradient?
A mesh gradient is a color blend built from several points scattered across the canvas. Each point glows with its own color, and the colors bleed into each other in soft, irregular shapes. The result looks like dyed silk or a northern-sky aurora, and it's one of the defining background looks of 2026 design.
Here's the difference from a regular gradient. A linear gradient fades between two colors along one straight line: clean, but flat and easy to spot. A mesh gradient pulls several colors across a 2D space from multiple points, so no two exports look quite the same. That organic, hard-to-template quality is exactly why designers reach for it on hero sections and product art.
Building one by hand used to mean fiddling with layered radial gradients in code or wrestling with the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator. This generator does it in your browser instead: pick colors, shuffle the layout, export. Under a minute, no signup.
Four steps from blank canvas to a gradient you'll actually use.
Pick a starting point
Click a preset to load a curated palette, or drop in your own colors. Not sure what pairs well? Pull a palette straight out of a photo with the color picker from image and paste the hex codes in.
Shuffle the layout
Tap the shuffle button, or press the spacebar, to scatter the color points into a new arrangement. Keep tapping until the composition feels balanced. Every shuffle is unique.
Dial in the details
Add up to eight colors, edit any one of them, and slide the grain up for a subtle film-noise texture. Pick the export size that matches where it's going.
Export it
Download a PNG, grab a scalable SVG, or copy the CSS to paste straight into your site. No signup, no watermark, yours to use commercially.
Where a mesh gradient earns its spot.
Anywhere a flat color feels a little dead, a mesh gradient adds depth without stealing focus from your content.
Hero backgrounds
A soft mesh behind your headline gives a landing page depth without competing with the text.
OG & social images
Mesh gradients make link previews and social posts pop in a crowded feed. Export at the exact size you need.
Slides & decks
Drop one behind a title slide or section break. It reads premium next to plain white or black layouts.
Album & podcast art
Cover art lives or dies on color. A bold mesh gradient gives a single or episode its own mood.
Text & logo fills
Export a PNG and use it as a fill behind clipped text or a logo mask for a gradient lettering effect.
App & web UI
Copy the CSS for cards, empty states, and onboarding screens that need a little warmth and life.
PNG, SVG, or CSS. Pick the one that fits the job.
Three ways out, no signup on any of them. Need a moving version instead? The animated background generator turns the same soft blends into a looping video for reels and intros.
PNG
A flat image that works everywhere. Grain gets baked in, so what you see in the preview is exactly what you download. Pick your export size first, since a PNG doesn't scale up cleanly.
SVG
A vector file that scales to any size without going soft. Ideal for billboards, packaging, or a full-bleed website hero. Grain is a raster texture, so the SVG stays clean and crisp.
CSS
Copy stacked radial gradients you paste straight onto any element. No image request, no extra file, and it stays razor-sharp on every screen. Exactly what a developer wants.
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Need the whole design, not just the background?
A mesh gradient is a great start. When you need the full post, slide, or thumbnail on top of it, Krumzi's AI builds the whole thing from a sentence.
Make it with AI
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