Minecraft block gradient generator smooth palettes

Pick a start block and an end block (and a middle one if you like) to get the smoothest row of blocks between them, chosen from 198 survival blocks or just wool, concrete or terracotta. Use it for walls, floors, roofs and terrain that fade from one colour to another.

8 steps · 7 different blocks

1Yellow Concrete
2Honeycomb Block
3Stripped Oak Log
4Exposed Copper
5Light Blue Terracotta
6Light Blue Terracotta
7Lapis Block
8Blue Concrete

Top bar: the ideal colour at each step. Tiles: the closest block, with its average face colour.

From

Middle (optional)

Steps

Blocks to use

Seen from

Survival blocks onlyNo falling blocksSkip repeated blocks

Example gradients

Made with the same engine from all survival blocks (side colours, repeats skipped). Open one to change it.

White to blackWhite Concrete → Clay → Polished Andesite → Polished Tuff → Gray Wool → Blackstone → Black Concrete SunsetYellow Concrete → Honeycomb Block → Cut Red Sandstone → Orange Terracotta → Purple Terracotta → Purple Concrete Sand to seaChiseled Sandstone → Birch Planks → Smooth Stone → Prismarine → Light Blue Terracotta → Lapis Block → Blue Concrete Pale to dark woodBirch Planks → Glowstone → Oak Planks → Bookshelf → Oak Log → Mangrove Log → Dark Oak Planks

How to use a gradient in a build

Pick the two blocks your build starts and ends with, for example the stone of the base and the wood of the roof.
Set the number of steps to the number of rows or bands you want to build.
Use one block per band, or mix neighbouring blocks at random inside a band for a softer blend.

Gradient questions

How does the gradient generator pick blocks?

It spaces the colours evenly between your blocks in the OKLab colour space, where equal steps look equally different to the eye, and picks the block whose average face colour is closest at each step.

Why do some blocks repeat?

When there is no block with a colour between two steps, the closest block wins twice. Turn on "Skip repeated blocks", lower the number of steps, or allow more blocks (All instead of Wool) to get a longer run of different blocks.

Side or top colour?

Logs, sandstone, hay, quartz pillars and some other blocks look different on top. Use "Side" for walls and "Top" for floors and roofs.

Want a picture made of blocks instead? Try the pixel art generator.