create a colored gradient text using Rich in Python

gradient_text_rich.py

def gradient_text(text: str, start_color: str, end_color: str) -> Text:
    gradient = Text()
    start: ColorTriplet | None = Color.parse(start_color).triplet
    end: ColorTriplet | None = Color.parse(end_color).triplet
    for i, char in enumerate(text):
        ratio: float = i / (len(text) - 1)
        blended_color = tuple(
            int(start[j] + (end[j] - start[j]) * ratio) for j in range(3)
        )
        color_code: str = f"#{''.join(f'{value:02x}' for value in blended_color)}"
        gradient.append(char, style=color_code)
    return gradient