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Blending Mode Color Burn

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October 14, 2025
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When background is black color blending mode color burn hide the text but when background is white color blending mode color burn shows the text. What is reason behing this? video also uploaded.

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Correct answer Pariah Burke

That's correct and expected behavior. Color burn darkens the base color (the layer below) to reflect the blend color (your red "a" in this case), by “burning” the darker areas even darker, and you can't make black any darker.

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Please share a sample Illustrator file (preferably the one you used in your video).

I guess your white background object/path is not pure white, but let's see.

MahaB82AAuthor

Here is the file.

Color Burn

Pariah Burke

Correct answer

Community Expert

That's correct and expected behavior. Color burn darkens the base color (the layer below) to reflect the blend color (your red "a" in this case), by “burning” the darker areas even darker, and you can't make black any darker.

MahaB82AAuthor

Thanks for the explanation.

So that "a" in the second screenshot also should become dark when blending mode color burn applied. Why does not it become dark? or if it is blend with background white color, it should become white.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

According to the specification:

“ColorBurn: Darkens the backdrop color to reflect the source color. Painting with white produces no change”.

That also means that a full Red, Green, Blue or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black background cannot be darkened and will show no change.

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