css filter to make elements one color

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mahemoff picture mahemoff · Jan 17, 2015 · Viewed 35.3k times · Source

The following CSS filter:

filter: brightness(0) invert(1);

makes elements all-white (source). Neat, but is there a way to make them another color instead, e.g. blue? This is for situations where there is a transparent background, e.g. an icon. I want to make the icon one arbitrary color.

Answer

Mark picture Mark · Jan 20, 2015

The hue-rotate() filter affects all colors however so it won't turn a full color image into a one color image. Rather it will move all the colors around the color wheel.

However you can hack a solution by converting to grayscale, adding sepia and then rotating the hue This make an image look like a single hue shaded green:

filter: grayscale(100%) sepia(100%) hue-rotate(90deg);

If you care dealing with vector work like an icon that you will use a lot, you might consider converting it to SVG, then you can color it with plain css. https://icomoon.io can help with this.

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