background color templates, such as fading

Hello there,

I have frequently been frustrated, when creating professional documents, such as Resumes, that there isn't an option to allow for gradient shading of fields, just complete colours.

With a capacity to reduce the impact of a colour, it would allow for text to become more visible, and also provide artistic capacity for documents requiring it, enabling one, or more colour to fade into another.

I'm thinking configuration such as;

Starting edge [top-left, bottom-right, left, etc]; Where a single colour would be most vibrant, fading into it's opposing side.

This would allow the capacity to provide multiple colours beginning on separate sides of a field to provide colour blending in fields, tables, and boxes/shapes.

Text could also be added to this option such that it's primary color changes to it's inverse on the opposing side, such that it would look like text is overlaid by a field box of its own with colours, allowing one to keep their text visible, even against gradiant background, as provided above.