Introduction
Blending combines pixels of elements, resulting in the background being mixed from an item's source color.
Blend modes are used for creating effects including text and images.
Image blending
For compositing image files on articles, i.e. galleries, like sprites as a glow effect, or darkening backgrounds (removing white space) on site-wide use, and you are the wiki administrator, use the following codes onto MediaWiki:Common.css (https://wiki-name.fandom.com/MediaWiki:Common.css replacing wiki-name with your wiki's name):
img [src*="Filename.ext"]
{
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
}
To set which images to be mixed with background, replace Filename.ext with the specific image on your wiki, and the type of blend mode from multiply with one of the following modes here.
If you do not have editing access to MediaWiki:Common.css, submit a request on an admin's message wall.
Applying the codes to your own common.css is not recommended, as it may falsify other user's experience of how the image appears on the page.
Color Blending
Different combination types achieve certain effects of blending one item, lightening or darkening, onto another element. The code is as follows:
<span style="mix-blend-mode: multiply;">Text Goes Here</span>
The following blend modes are valid:
- color
- color-burn
- color-dodge
- darken
- difference
- exclusion
- hard-light
- hue
- luminosity
- multiply
- normal
- overlay
- plus-lighter (unavailable in
background-blend-mode) - saturation
- screen
- soft-light
Darken
Result:
Text Goes Here
Coding:
<span style="mix-blend-mode: multiply;">Text Goes Here</span>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: white; color: black; mix-blend-mode: multiply;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: white; color: black; mix-blend-mode: color-burn;">Text goes here</div>
Lighten
Text
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: green; color: white;"><span style="mix-blend-mode: color-dodge;">Text goes here</span></div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: black; color: white; mix-blend-mode: screen;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, black, white); color: white; mix-blend-mode: screen;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Text goes here
Coding:
<span style="color: white; mix-blend-mode: plus-lighter;">Text goes here</span>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: black; color: white; mix-blend-mode: plus-lighter;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, black, white); color: white; mix-blend-mode: plus-lighter;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, red, yellow, lime, cyan, blue, magenta, red); color: black; mix-blend-mode: plus-lighter;">Text goes here</div>
Images
Result:

Coding:
<span style="mix-blend-mode: plus-lighter;">[[File:WINDOWS XP OMG.jpg|300px|left]]</span>
Contrast
Text
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, red, yellow, lime, cyan, blue, magenta, red); color: black; mix-blend-mode: overlay;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, red, yellow, lime, cyan, blue, magenta, red); color: soft-light; mix-blend-mode: overlay;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, red, yellow, lime, cyan, blue, magenta, red); color: hard-light; mix-blend-mode: overlay;">Text goes here</div>
Images
Result:

Coding:
<span style="mix-blend-mode: overlay;">[[File:WINDOWS XP OMG.jpg|300px|left]]</span>
Comparison
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: black; color: white; mix-blend-mode: difference;">Text goes here</div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, red, yellow, lime, cyan, blue, magenta, red); color: white; mix-blend-mode: difference;">Text goes here</div>
Color
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: lime; color: red;"><span style="mix-blend-mode: hue;">Text goes here</span></div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: lime; color: white;"><span style="mix-blend-mode: saturation;">Text goes here</span></div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: blue; color: yellow;"><span style="mix-blend-mode: color;">Text goes here</span></div>
Result:
Coding:
<div style="background: blue; color: yellow;"><span style="mix-blend-mode: luminosity;">Text goes here</span></div>