Hover States
New, interesting, and weird in web and design
Hover States launched on January 22, 2016 with 135 votes, #230 of 4,523 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
The home of alternative design, code and content on the world wide web.
A soft fuzzy typography SVG animation to create an interaction that brings the words of this editorial for Soft Labor into focus when you decide to interact with them. I lovely simple evolution to the timeline nav with playtime updates and scrollable video switching. From scattered stacks to orderly list this portfolio for Tiger Dingsun exposes both personality and practice. Lovely use of a hover-toggle effect, used architecturally across single landscape images on this site for Oliver Dupuy. Explore the career of Andrew Trousdale through this hybrid node and text interface, allowing you to uncover life’s hidden connections. A simple balanced one pager where the the content stacks like a…from hoverstat.es
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