CSS Text Color as the Inverse Background Color

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Set the color of the text to the opposite of the background – eg. rgb(255,0,0) becomes rgb(0,255,255) – and then use mix-blend-mode: difference; to make it all work.

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Bramus is a Freelance Web Developer from Belgium. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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  1. Great stuff!

    Different behaviour in browsers though: Chrome and Opera count to 100%, Firefox and Safari don’t, it stays at 0%. But the color change/inversion works in all, differently, but it works.

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