Spent 2 hours fighting a 47 layer gradient blob, then found the conic-gradient trick and rebuilt it in 15 minutes

Michael Coleman · 2026-09-17T20:15:03.373557+00:00

I was trying to make this big round aura thing with stacked radial gradients and the banding looked awful on my laptop at 50 percent zoom. Then I swapped the whole thing for one conic-gradient with a few hard stops and a blur filter, and somehow it came out smoother and loaded faster than the messy version. Is there a rule for when conic beats radial, or is it just whatever renders clean that day?

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