Circle Hover Effects with CSS Transitions

In today’s tutorial we’ll experiment with hover effects on circles. Since we have the border radius property, we can create circular shapes and they have been appearing more often as design elements in websites. One use that I especially enjoy seeing is the circular thumbnail which just looks so much more interesting than the usual rectangular. And because the circle is such a special shape, we are going to create some special hover effects for it!

We will omit vendor prefixes in this tutorial. But you’ll of course find them in the files.

So, let’s get started!

The HTML

For most of the examples, we’ll be using the following structure:

<ul class="ch-grid">
	<li>
		<div class="ch-item ch-img-1">
			<div class="ch-info">
				<h3>Use what you have</h3>
				<p>by Angela Duncan <a href="http://drbl.in/eOPF">View on Dribbble</a></p>
			</div>
		</div>
	</li>
	<li>
		<div class="ch-item ch-img-2">
			<div class="ch-info">
				<h3>Common Causes of Stains</h3>
				<p>by Antonio F. Mondragon <a href="http://drbl.in/eKMi">View on Dribbble</a></p>
			</div>
		</div>
	</li>
	<li>
		<div class="ch-item ch-img-3">
			<div class="ch-info">
				<h3>Pink Lightning</h3>
				<p>by Charlie Wagers <a href="http://drbl.in/ekhp">View on Dribbble</a></p>
			</div>
		</div>
	</li>
</ul>

Although we could use images here, we’ll give ourselves a bit more freedom by using background images instead. We’ll define them in the classes starting with “ch-img-“. Additionally, we’ll have a division for the description of the item with a title.

Now, let’s make some hover effects!

The CSS

Let’s define some common style for the list and the list items:

.ch-grid {
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	display: block;
	text-align: center;
	width: 100%;
}

.ch-grid:after,
.ch-item:before {
	content: '';
    display: table;
}

.ch-grid:after {
	clear: both;
}

.ch-grid li {
	width: 220px;
	height: 220px;
	display: inline-block;
	margin: 20px;
}

We can center the list items by using display inline-block and setting the text-align property of its parent to center.
The clearfix hack is by Nicolas Gallagher: http://nicolasgallagher.com/micro-clearfix-hack/

Some of the examples will have a different structure but we’ll look into that for each example in more detail.

Example 1

The first example is going to reveal the description by scaling it up and we will also animate the inset box shadow of the item itself. So let’s position the item and set a nice, bif inset box shadow and a transition:

.ch-item {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	overflow: hidden;
	position: relative;
	cursor: default;
	box-shadow: 
		inset 0 0 0 16px rgba(255,255,255,0.6),
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
}

As you notices before, we’ve given two classes to the item (not the list item but its child division): one is ct-item and the other one will be used to define a specific background image:

.ch-img-1 { 
	background-image: url(../images/1.jpg);
}

.ch-img-2 { 
	background-image: url(../images/2.jpg);
}

.ch-img-3 { 
	background-image: url(../images/3.jpg);
}

The description element will be positioned absolutely and we’ll give it a semi-transparent background by setting an RGBA value. It’s opacity is going to be 0 and we’ll scale it down to 0, too:

.ch-info {
	position: absolute;
	background: rgba(63,147,147, 0.8);
	width: inherit;
	height: inherit;
	border-radius: 50%;
	overflow: hidden;
	opacity: 0;
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
	transform: scale(0);
}

The title of the item will have some fitting paddings and margins and a smooth text shadow:

.ch-info h3 {
	color: #fff;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	font-size: 22px;
	margin: 0 30px;
	padding: 45px 0 0 0;
	height: 140px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	text-shadow: 
		0 0 1px #fff, 
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

The paragraph element has 0 opacity and a transition (we want to fade it in on hover but with a delay):

.ch-info p {
	color: #fff;
	padding: 10px 5px;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 30px;
	font-size: 12px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
	opacity: 0;
	transition: all 1s ease-in-out 0.4s;
}

The link will be in uppercase letters and we’ll make the hover color yellow:

.ch-info p a {
	display: block;
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 9px;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
}

.ch-info p a:hover {
	color: rgba(255,242,34, 0.8);
}

And now, the interesting hover action!
The item will animate its box shadow’s spread radius from 16px to 1px:

.ch-item:hover {
	box-shadow: 
		inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1),
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}

The description will fade in and scale up to 1:

.ch-item:hover .ch-info {
	transform: scale(1);
	opacity: 1;
}

And the paragraph of the description will just fade in (with a delay):

.ch-item:hover .ch-info p {
	opacity: 1;
}

And that’s the first example! Let’s take a look at the next one.

Example 2

The HTML structure in this example is the same as the first one.

In this example we will use the box shadow of the item to fill our circle and serve as the background of the description.
So, nothing special here, just the box shadow that has one more value line:

.ch-item {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	position: relative;
	cursor: default;
	box-shadow: 
		inset 0 0 0 0 rgba(200,95,66, 0.4),
		inset 0 0 0 16px rgba(255,255,255,0.6),
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
}

And the background-images:

.ch-img-1 { 
	background-image: url(../images/4.jpg);
}

.ch-img-2 { 
	background-image: url(../images/5.jpg);
}

.ch-img-3 { 
	background-image: url(../images/6.jpg);
}

The description will be scaled down again:

.ch-info {
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	overflow: hidden;
	opacity: 0;
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
	transform: scale(0);
	backface-visibility: hidden;
}

And let’s style the typographical elements:

.ch-info h3 {
	color: #fff;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	position: relative;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	font-size: 22px;
	margin: 0 30px;
	padding: 65px 0 0 0;
	height: 110px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	text-shadow: 
		0 0 1px #fff, 
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.ch-info p {
	color: #fff;
	padding: 10px 5px;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 30px;
	font-size: 12px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

.ch-info p a {
	display: block;
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 9px;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
}

.ch-info p a:hover {
	color: rgba(255,242,34, 0.8);
}

On hover we’ll animate the inset box shadow (the reddish one) to 110px spread radius. This will cover all the circle:

.ch-item:hover {
	box-shadow: 
		inset 0 0 0 110px rgba(200,95,66, 0.4),
		inset 0 0 0 16px rgba(255,255,255,0.8),
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}

And we’ll scale up the description and fade it in:

.ch-item:hover .ch-info {
	opacity: 1;
	transform: scale(1);	
}

Example 3

In this example, we’ll play with rotation. The structure will be a bit different from the first two examples since we need to add the thumbnail as a second divison. So the list item will look as follows:

<li>
	<div class="ch-item">	
		<div class="ch-info">
			<h3>Music poster</h3>
			<p>by Jonathan Quintin <a href="http://drbl.in/eGjw">View on Dribbble</a></p>
		</div>
		<div class="ch-thumb ch-img-1"></div>
	</div>
</li>

The item division will be styled like before (with a subtle box shadow):

.ch-item {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	position: relative;
	cursor: default;
	box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}

The thumbnail element will have a specific transform-origin (somewhere to the right middle) and a transition. This will be the element that we want to rotate down on hover so that it reveals the description element:

.ch-thumb {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	overflow: hidden;
	position: absolute;
	box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 15px rgba(255,255,255, 0.5);
	transform-origin: 95% 40%;
	transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
}

Using the pseudo-class :after we’ll create a little brass fastener with a radial gradient:

.ch-thumb:after {
	content: '';
	width: 8px;
	height: 8px;
	position: absolute;
	border-radius: 50%;
	top: 40%;
	left: 95%;
	margin: -4px 0 0 -4px;
	background: radial-gradient(ellipse at center, rgba(14,14,14,1) 0%,rgba(125,126,125,1) 100%);
	box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.9);
}

Let’s define the background images for each thumb element:

.ch-img-1 { 
	background-image: url(../images/7.jpg);
	z-index: 12;
}

.ch-img-2 { 
	background-image: url(../images/8.jpg);
	z-index: 11;
}

.ch-img-3 { 
	background-image: url(../images/9.jpg);
	z-index: 10;
}

The desciption element will be styled as follows:

.ch-info {
	position: absolute;
	width: inherit;
	height: inherit;
	border-radius: 50%;
	overflow: hidden;
	background: #c9512e url(../images/noise.png);
	box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
}

The typographical elements will be positioned and styled the following way:

.ch-info h3 {
	color: #fff;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	position: relative;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	font-size: 18px;
	margin: 0 60px;
	padding: 22px 0 0 0;
	height: 85px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	text-shadow: 
		0 0 1px #fff, 
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.ch-info p {
	color: #fff;
	padding: 10px 5px;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 30px;
	font-size: 12px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

The anchor will be a little circle that should move in from the right on hover:

.ch-info p a {
	display: block;
	color: #333;
	width: 80px;
	height: 80px;
	background: rgba(255,255,255,0.3);
	border-radius: 50%;
	color: #fff;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 9px;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding-top: 24px;
	margin: 7px auto 0;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	opacity: 0;
	transition: 
		transform 0.3s ease-in-out 0.2s,
		opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0.2s,
		background 0.2s linear 0s;
	transform: translateX(60px) rotate(90deg);
}

.ch-info p a:hover {
	background: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

Since we want the movement and opacity to happen with a delay, but the background hover transition without, we’ll separate the transitions.

On hover we’ll rotate the thumb and move/rotate the link element:

.ch-item:hover .ch-thumb {
	box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 15px rgba(255,255,255, 0.5), 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
	transform: rotate(-110deg);
}
.ch-item:hover .ch-info p a{
	opacity: 1;
	transform: translateX(0px) rotate(0deg);
}

Example 4

The forth example will involve some 3D rotations. So, we need to adjust the structured in order to have a container for the perspective and a front and backface. So, the list items will look as follows:

<li>
	<div class="ch-item ch-img-1">				
		<div class="ch-info-wrap">
			<div class="ch-info">
				<div class="ch-info-front ch-img-1"></div>
				<div class="ch-info-back">
					<h3>Bears Type</h3>
					<p>by Josh Schott <a href="http://drbl.in/ewUW">View on Dribbble</a></p>
				</div>	
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
</li>

As you can see, we’ll add the background image to the item division and also to the front part of the flipping division.
The trick is to give the same background to the ch-info-wrap like the body. This will give the illusion as if our item has a hole.

The item will have the usual styling:

.ch-item {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	position: relative;
	box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	cursor: default;
}

The extra wrapper will be used for the perspective and we’ll also add a transition for the box shadow:

.ch-info-wrap{
	position: absolute;
	width: 180px;
	height: 180px;
	border-radius: 50%;
	perspective: 800px;
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
	top: 20px;
	left: 20px;
	background: #f9f9f9 url(../images/bg.jpg);
	box-shadow: 
		0 0 0 20px rgba(255,255,255,0.2), 
		inset 0 0 3px rgba(115,114, 23, 0.8);

}

The ch-info div will need preserve-3d for the transform-style and we’ll give it a transition since this is the element we’ll rotate in 3d:

.ch-info{
	position: absolute;
	width: 180px;
	height: 180px;
	border-radius: 50%;
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
	transform-style: preserve-3d;
}

The front and the backface will have the following common styles:

.ch-info > div {
	display: block;
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	background-position: center center;
	backface-visibility: hidden;
}

The backface will be rotated so that we won’t see it initially:

.ch-info .ch-info-back {
	transform: rotate3d(0,1,0,180deg);
	background: #000;
}

And again, the background images:

.ch-img-1 { 
	background-image: url(../images/10.jpg);
}

.ch-img-2 { 
	background-image: url(../images/11.jpg);
}

.ch-img-3 { 
	background-image: url(../images/12.jpg);
}

…and the typographical elements:

.ch-info h3 {
	color: #fff;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	font-size: 14px;
	margin: 0 15px;
	padding: 40px 0 0 0;
	height: 90px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	text-shadow: 
		0 0 1px #fff, 
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.ch-info p {
	color: #fff;
	padding: 10px 5px;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 30px;
	font-size: 12px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

.ch-info p a {
	display: block;
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 9px;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
}

.ch-info p a:hover {
	color: rgba(255,242,34, 0.8);
}

On hover, we’ll change the box shadow of the wrapper and rotate the parent of the back and frontface so that we see the back:

.ch-item:hover .ch-info-wrap {
	box-shadow: 
		0 0 0 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.8), 
		inset 0 0 3px rgba(115,114, 23, 0.8);
}

.ch-item:hover .ch-info {
	transform: rotate3d(0,1,0,-180deg);
}

Example 5

In this example we want to scale down the inner thumbnail part to 0 and make the description element appear by fading it in and scaling it down to 1.
The structure of the fifth example will be the same as in the previous example.

The item has the usual style:

.ch-item {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	position: relative;
	box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	cursor: default;
}

The wrapper of the description div and the info div itself will have the following common style:

.ch-info-wrap, 
.ch-info{
	position: absolute;
	width: 180px;
	height: 180px;
	border-radius: 50%;
}

Let’s do again the “hole” trick by setting the same background of the body to the wrapper:

.ch-info-wrap {
	top: 20px;
	left: 20px;
	background: #f9f9f9 url(../images/bg.jpg);
	box-shadow: 
		0 0 0 20px rgba(255,255,255,0.2), 
		inset 0 0 3px rgba(115,114, 23, 0.8);

}

The “front” and the “back” (it’s not really a front and backface anymore) common style:

.ch-info > div {
	display: block;
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	background-position: center center;
}

The “front” will have a transition (it will scale down and disappear):

.ch-info .ch-info-front {
	transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out;
}

And the back that holds the description will have 0 opacity initially and be scaled up to 1.5:

.ch-info .ch-info-back {
	opacity: 0;
	background: #223e87;
	pointer-events: none;
	transform: scale(1.5);
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0.2s;
}

We need to set the pointer-events to none since we don’t want the element to “block” everything else…remeber, it’s scaled up, we just can’t see it because of it’s opacity, but it’s still there.

Background images and typographical elements as usual, just with some different colors:

.ch-img-1 { 
	background-image: url(../images/13.jpg);
}

.ch-img-2 { 
	background-image: url(../images/14.jpg);
}

.ch-img-3 { 
	background-image: url(../images/15.jpg);
}

.ch-info h3 {
	color: #fff;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	font-size: 18px;
	margin: 0 15px;
	padding: 40px 0 0 0;
	height: 80px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	text-shadow: 
		0 0 1px #fff, 
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.ch-info p {
	color: #fff;
	padding: 10px 5px 0;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 30px;
	font-size: 12px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

.ch-info p a {
	display: block;
	color: #e7615e;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 9px;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
}

.ch-info p a:hover {
	color: #fff;
}

On hover we’ll scale down the inner thumbnail part to 0 and set the opacity to 0. This will make it disappear into the back.

.ch-item:hover .ch-info-front {
	transform: scale(0);
	opacity: 0;
} 

The part that contains the description will be scaled down to 1 and faded in. We’ll also set the pointer event to whatever they were before because now we want to be able to click on the link:

.ch-item:hover .ch-info-back {
	transform: scale(1);
	opacity: 1;
	pointer-events: auto;
}

Example 6

In this example we want to flip the inner thumbnail part down in order to reveal the description. The HTML will be the same like in the previous two examples.

The item will be styled as before:

.ch-item {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	position: relative;
	box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	cursor: default;
}

The common style of the wrapper and the description element:

.ch-info-wrap, 
.ch-info{
	position: absolute;
	width: 180px;
	height: 180px;
	border-radius: 50%;
	transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
}

The wrapper will have perspective:

.ch-info-wrap {
	top: 20px;
	left: 20px;
	background: #f9f9f9 url(../images/bg.jpg);
	box-shadow: 
		0 0 0 20px rgba(255,255,255,0.2), 
		inset 0 0 3px rgba(115,114, 23, 0.8);
	perspective: 800px;
}

The info element will need the following transform style:

.ch-info {
	transform-style: preserve-3d;
}

The front and the backface will have a transition. Note that this time we’ll not set the backface-visibility to hidden, since we want the back of the inner thumbnail part to show when we flip it down:

.ch-info > div {
	display: block;
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	background-position: center center;
	transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out;
}

Let’s set the correct transform-origin so that we can open it down:

.ch-info .ch-info-front {
	transform-origin: 50% 100%;	
	z-index: 100;
	box-shadow: 
		inset 2px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}

We’ll set an RGBA value with 0 opacity to the background of the description part:

.ch-info .ch-info-back {
	background: rgba(230,132,107,0);
}

And the usual style for the other elements:

.ch-img-1 { 
	background-image: url(../images/16.jpg);
}

.ch-img-2 { 
	background-image: url(../images/17.jpg);
}

.ch-img-3 { 
	background-image: url(../images/18.jpg);
}

.ch-info h3 {
	color: #fff;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	font-size: 14px;
	margin: 0 25px;
	padding: 40px 0 0 0;
	height: 90px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	text-shadow: 
		0 0 1px #fff, 
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.ch-info p {
	color: #fff;
	padding: 10px 5px;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 30px;
	font-size: 12px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

.ch-info p a {
	display: block;
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 9px;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
}

.ch-info p a:hover {
	color: rgba(255,242,34, 0.8);
}

On hover, we’ll rotate the front part and animate the box shadow slightly. The back part will fade in its background color:

.ch-item:hover .ch-info-front {
	transform: rotate3d(1,0,0,-180deg);
	box-shadow: 
		inset 0 0 5px rgba(255,255,255,0.2), 
		inset 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.ch-item:hover .ch-info-back {
	background: rgba(230,132,107,0.6);
}

Example 7

The last example will act like a rotating cube where we reveal the description by rotating it in from the top back. Since we will rotate each of the faces, we won’t need an extra wrapper. So, our HTML will look as follows:

<li>
	<div class="ch-item">				
		<div class="ch-info">
			<div class="ch-info-front ch-img-1"></div>
			<div class="ch-info-back">
				<h3>Mouse</h3>
				<p>by Alexander Shumihin <a href="http://drbl.in/eAoj">View on Dribbble</a></p>
			</div>	
		</div>
	</div>
</li>

We’ll give a perspective value to the item itself:

.ch-item {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	position: relative;
	cursor: default;
	perspective: 900px;
}

The element with the class ch-info will need the preserve-3d:

.ch-info{
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	transform-style: preserve-3d;
}

The front and backface will have a transition and the transform origin will be set to 50% 0%:

.ch-info > div {
	display: block;
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	border-radius: 50%;
	background-position: center center;
	transition: all 0.4s linear;
	transform-origin: 50% 0%;
}

Let’s set a nice inset box shadow to the front part:

.ch-info .ch-info-front {
	box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 16px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

The backface will be rotated initially in order to appear as the down face of a cube:

.ch-info .ch-info-back {
	transform: translate3d(0,0,-220px) rotate3d(1,0,0,90deg);
	background: #000;
	opacity: 0;
}

And the usual style for the background images and text elements:

.ch-img-1 { 
	background-image: url(../images/19.jpg);
}

.ch-img-2 { 
	background-image: url(../images/20.jpg);
}

.ch-img-3 { 
	background-image: url(../images/21.jpg);
}

.ch-info h3 {
	color: #fff;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	font-size: 24px;
	margin: 0 15px;
	padding: 60px 0 0 0;
	height: 110px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
	text-shadow: 
		0 0 1px #fff, 
		0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.ch-info p {
	color: #fff;
	padding: 10px 5px;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 30px;
	font-size: 12px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

.ch-info p a {
	display: block;
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 9px;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
}

.ch-info p a:hover {
	color: rgba(255,242,34, 0.8);
}

We’ll use translate3d to move the front part on the Y axis of our 3d space and rotate3d to actually rotate it. We’ll also fade it out because we don’t want to see any part of it afterwards:

.ch-item:hover .ch-info-front {
	transform: translate3d(0,280px,0) rotate3d(1,0,0,-90deg);
	opacity: 0;
}

The backface will be rotated “back” to 0 degrees (remember, initially it was rotated downwards):

.ch-item:hover .ch-info-back {
	transform: rotate3d(1,0,0,0deg);
	opacity: 1;
}

And that’s it! A whole bunch of hover effects that allow for many different variations, just try it out and play with it!

Hope you enjoyed these effects and find them inspiring!

Credits: Featured image illustration from Arnel Baluyot’s Stay Foxy.