Gradient iPhone wallpapers
Mesh gradients, silk folds, conic sweeps and grainy duotones. Forty-eight of them, four pages.
Peach dusk mesh gradient
Lagoon mesh gradient
Ultraviolet mesh gradient
Citrus haze mesh gradient
Glacier mesh gradient
Rosewater mesh gradient
Deep sea mesh gradient
Sage and sand mesh gradient
Ember mesh gradient
Lilac morning mesh gradient
Northern mesh gradient
Tangerine sky mesh gradient
A gradient looks simple and is easy to get wrong. Blend two colours the naive way and the middle turns muddy; save it as an 8-bit file and visible steps appear across the sky. These are blended in linear light, which keeps the middle tones bright, and carry a very fine grain that breaks up the steps. You will not see the grain at arm's length; you would see the banding without it.
Mesh gradients place five colour fields at random positions and let them bleed into each other. Silk gradients fold a noise field so the colours ripple like satin. Conic gradients sweep around a centre placed off-screen, so you only see an arc of the wheel. Grain gradients use three colours and a heavier texture, like printed paper.
Want your own colours? The gradient maker builds one at your iPhone's exact size.