Category: css mix blend modes

Methods for Contrasting Text Against Backgrounds

It started with seeing a recent Pen of Mandy Michael’s text effects demos. I’m a very visual creature, so the first thing I noticed was the effect, not the title (which clearly states how the effect was achieved). Instantly, my mind went “blend modes!”, which turned out to be wrong. The demo act...

Visual Regression Testing with CSS Blend Modes

Last week I saw Una Kravets give a very inspiring talk at Generate Conf about using CSS Filters and Mix Blend Modes. One demo in particular got my attention because Una showed us how we could overlay two layouts on top of each other and use blend modes to spot all the differences between them. I was pretty excited abo...