About

Meridian started as a scratch folder. Every project seemed to need one more soft background — a hero section, a placeholder card, an empty state — and every time it meant opening a design tool, nudging two colour stops around, and exporting yet another near-duplicate file.

How the assets are made

Each gradient is generated from a small script: a base hue, a rotation, two or three stops sampled along a curve, and a grain layer built from a deterministic noise function. Because the output is plain SVG, the files stay small, scale to any resolution, and can be recoloured by editing a couple of attributes.

Nothing here is hand-painted, and nothing is sourced from a stock library. That keeps the licensing situation simple: there is no photographer to credit and no model release to worry about.

Using them

Drop the file in your assets folder and reference it like any other image. The gradients are designed to sit behind text, so they avoid high-contrast hotspots in the middle third of the canvas. If you need a different aspect ratio, edit the viewBox — the geometry is defined in relative units and will stretch cleanly.

Contact

This is a side project maintained in spare evenings, so there is no support queue and no roadmap. If an asset renders oddly in some browser, the honest answer is that it will probably be fixed the next time the generator runs.