What is Rayst Gradients and how does it work?
Nothing now. Rayst Gradients was a free collection of pre-made colour gradients presented as swatches you could browse and copy as CSS. The workflow was open the page, find a gradient you like, copy the code, paste it into your stylesheet.
The deployment has been disabled at the hosting level. The server returns a 402 and a Vercel error header rather than a page.
Rayst Gradients standout strengths
Judged on the concept, curated gradient sets do real work. Picking two colours that look good together is a design skill, and most developers building a landing page do not have it. Handing over a set someone has already vetted skips that problem entirely.
Free with no signup was also the correct decision for something this small. Tools like this die the moment they ask for an email.
Rayst Gradients weaknesses and drawbacks
The site being switched off is the review. A disabled Vercel deployment usually means an unpaid bill or an abandoned project, and either way there is no page and no notice.
Worth noting the general fragility here. Small free design resources are usually one person's side project, run on a personal hosting account, with no plan for what happens when the maintainer moves on. That is not a criticism of the people who build them, and it is a reason to copy what you need rather than bookmark and assume.
Curated gradient collections also age. A set assembled around one year's visual fashion looks dated a few years later, and there is no upgrade path other than someone rebuilding it.
Rayst Gradients pricing & plans (2026)
No pricing, no product, nobody. It should not be in a current toolkit.
Live alternatives cover this completely. uiGradients, Gradient Hunt and CSS Gradient all offer browsable gradients with copy-ready code for free. Coolors handles palette generation more broadly. Figma and Canva both generate gradients directly in the editor if you are designing rather than coding.
Who is Rayst Gradients best for?
| User type |
Why it fits |
Considerations |
| Anyone |
Not applicable |
Deployment disabled, returns HTTP 402 |
| Web developers |
Not applicable |
Use uiGradients, Gradient Hunt or CSS Gradient |
| Designers |
Not applicable |
Figma and Canva generate gradients natively |
Rayst Gradients review: final verdict
Rayst Gradients is offline. The host returns a disabled-deployment error, there is no notice and no successor. It was a useful free resource of the kind that appears and vanishes constantly, and the gap it left is fully covered by tools that are still running.
2.2 out of 5, recorded as a shutdown. If a free design resource is part of your workflow, save the assets locally rather than relying on the site being there next year.
