CSS mix-blend-mode: Blend Text, Images & Colors Like Photoshop (2026)
mix-blend-mode lets an element's pixels react to whatever is behind them — the same algorithms Photoshop uses. Remove white backgrounds from logos. Make text always readable (with the WCAG caveat nobody mentions). Build duotone photos in pure CSS or with Spotify-style SVG feColorMatrix. Plus the interaction matrix when mix-blend-mode silently stops working with opacity/filter/transform, plus-lighter/plus-darker (CSS Blending Level 2), animation behavior, glitch/chromatic-aberration patterns, and forced-colors fallbacks.