Re-Creating The Pop-Out Hover Effect With Modern CSS (Part 1)

This article is all about experimenting with modern CSS features. We will combine things like CSS masks, CSS variables, trigonometric functions, @property, and more to create a neat hover effect that would have been extremely difficult to do even a few years ago without the latest and greatest that CSS has to offer. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/09/re-creating-pop-out-hover-effect-css-part1/

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