How to Blend Text Into Images in CSS
Ferenc Almasi • 2020 August 19 •
1 min read
You can use the mix-blend-mode property in CSS to blend text into images:
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// Use the mix-blend-mode property to blend text
// into images.
.blend {
mix-blend-mode: overlay;
}
<figure>
<img src="nature.jpg" />
<figcaption class="blend">
“Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.”
~ Lao Tzu
</figcaption>
</figure>You can check the result in the following Codepen:
The mix-blend-mode property can take up a number of different values:
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mix-blend-mode: normal;
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
mix-blend-mode: screen;
mix-blend-mode: overlay;
mix-blend-mode: darken;
mix-blend-mode: lighten;
mix-blend-mode: color-dodge;
mix-blend-mode: color-burn;
mix-blend-mode: hard-light;
mix-blend-mode: soft-light;
mix-blend-mode: difference;
mix-blend-mode: exclusion;
mix-blend-mode: hue;
mix-blend-mode: saturation;
mix-blend-mode: color;
mix-blend-mode: luminosity;
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