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This looks pretty nice and there's loads of good stuff here - well done!

Two comments: 1) I am really not sure about the resizing hover animation on the buttons (it feels too slow and looks like it goes a bit blurry as it resizes, at least on my non-retina external display); 2) I don't think the checkbox having the tick in it in the unchecked hover state is the right behaviour and will probably confuse some users.

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I agree with both of these issues. In addition to looking blurry, it is difficult to differentiate the hovered button by size alone. Consider adding a border or other effect to better indicate the hover state. A few of the other controls on the page do this. For example, the buttons you use below your section headings change their outline when hovered.

I see that blurry zoom transition effect all over the place. I suspect retina Macs don't do it, so designers keep doing it. Kinda reminds me that up until recently, Shopify used to only list Helvetica in their font-family, so Windows users saw Times New Roman. I see that stuff all the time coming from Mac-centric design firms.

^ I hesitated writing that, since it was all speculation, but then I clicked the link at the bottom saying "Hire me!" to see the designer's website and...

    html {
        font-family: "Avenir";
    }

No fallbacks whatsoever, so I'm seeing Times New Roman.

Thank you for your feedback bshimmin. I removed the resize property and reworked the hover effect. :)

I have the same issue with button resizing on my 4k monitor, I think it would work better if just the button resized, not the text, since the spacing between the letters bounces around when the text resizes.

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