`palette-mix()` CSS function

The palette-mix() CSS function can be used to create a new font-palette value by blending together two font-palette values by specified percentages and color interpolation methods.

Syntax

/* Blending font-defined palettes */
font-palette: palette-mix(in lch, normal, dark)

/* Blending author-defined palettes */
font-palette: palette-mix(in lch, --blues, --yellows)

/* Varying percentage of each palette mixed */
font-palette: palette-mix(in lch, --blues 50%, --yellows 50%)
font-palette: palette-mix(in lch, --blues 70%, --yellows 30%)

/* Varying color interpolation method */
font-palette: palette-mix(in srgb, --blues, --yellows)
font-palette: palette-mix(in hsl, --blues, --yellows)
font-palette: palette-mix(in hsl shorter hue, --blues, --yellows)

Values

Functional notation:

palette-mix(method, palette1 [p1], palette2 [p2])

method

A <color-interpolation-method> specifying the interpolation color space.

palette1, palette2

The font-palette values to blend together. These can be any font-palette values, including palette-mix() functions, normal, dark, and light.

p1, p2 Optional

<percentage> values between 0% and 100% specifying the amount of each palette to mix. They are normalized as follows:

• If both p1 and p2 are omitted, then p1 = p2 = 50%.
• If p1 is omitted, then p1 = 100% - p2.
• If p2 is omitted, then p2 = 100% - p1.
• If p1 = p2 = 0%, the function is invalid.
• If p1 + p2 ≠ 100%, then p1' = p1 / (p1 + p2) and p2' = p2 / (p1 + p2), where p1' and p2' are the normalization results.

Formal syntax

<palette-mix()> = 
  palette-mix(<color-interpolation-method> , [ [normal | light | dark | <palette-identifier> | <palette-mix()> ] && <percentage [0,100]>? ]#{2})

<color-interpolation-method> = 
  in [ <rectangular-color-space> | <polar-color-space> <hue-interpolation-method>? | <custom-color-space> ]

<palette-identifier> = 
  <dashed-ident>

<palette-mix()> = 
  palette-mix(<color-interpolation-method> , [ [normal | light | dark | <palette-identifier> | <palette-mix()> ] && <percentage [0,100]>? ]#{2})

<rectangular-color-space> = 
  srgb |
  srgb-linear |
  display-p3 |
  display-p3-linear |
  a98-rgb |
  prophoto-rgb |
  rec2020 |
  lab |
  oklab |
  xyz |
  xyz-d50 |
  xyz-d65

<polar-color-space> = 
  hsl |
  hwb |
  lch |
  oklch

<hue-interpolation-method> = 
  [ shorter | longer | increasing | decreasing ] hue

<custom-color-space> = 
  <dashed-ident>

Examples

Using palette-mix() to blend two palettes

This example shows how to use the palette-mix() function to create a new palette by blending two others.

HTML

The HTML contains three paragraphs to apply our font information to:

<p class="yellowPalette">Yellow palette</p>
<p class="bluePalette">Blue palette</p>
<p class="mixedPalette">Mixed palette</p>

CSS

In the CSS, we import a color font from Google Fonts, and define two custom font-palette values using the @font-palette-values at-rule. We then apply three different font-palette values to the paragraphs — --yellow, --blue, and a new green palette, created using palette-mix() to blend the blue and yellow palettes together.

@import "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Nabla&display=swap";

@font-palette-values --blue-nabla {
  font-family: "Nabla";
  base-palette: 2; /* this is Nabla's blue palette */
}

@font-palette-values --yellow-nabla {
  font-family: "Nabla";
  base-palette: 7; /* this is Nabla's yellow palette */
}

p {
  font-family: "Nabla", fantasy;
  font-size: 4rem;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

.yellowPalette {
  font-palette: --yellow-nabla;
}

.bluePalette {
  font-palette: --blue-nabla;
}

.mixedPalette {
  font-palette: palette-mix(in lch, --blue-nabla 55%, --yellow-nabla 45%);
}

Result

The output looks like this:

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• font-palette
• @font-palette-values
• color-mix()
• CSS color values guide
• Color space