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The animated radial-gradient is achieved by scaling a pseudo element that sits in front of the text. 
The dynamic text colour uses mix-blend-mode: difference. 

However, this seems to only work if the colours are black and white (I have tested other inverse colours without success)... any ideas how to allow for different colours (inverse or otherwise)?? Smash that fork button :D
-->
<input type="checkbox" id="cb1" /><label for="cb1">Toggle me</label>

$color-dark: #000;
$color-light: #fff;
$bg-size-end: 4.2;
$dur: .3s;

html { box-sizing: border-box; height: 100%; font-size: 10px; } *, *::before, *::after { box-sizing: inherit; }

body {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  min-height: 100vh;
  background: #57bd84;
}

input[type=checkbox] {
  height: 0;
  width: 0;
  visibility: hidden;

  &:checked + label {
    &:after {
      transform: scale($bg-size-end);
    } 
  }
}

label {
  outline: none;
  user-select: none;
  color: $color-dark;
  font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
  font-size: 2.5rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.04rem;
  padding: 1.5rem 3rem;
  cursor: pointer;
  border-radius: .4rem;
  border: .3rem solid $color-dark;
  background: $color-light;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;

  &::after {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%; 
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    transform: scale(0);
    transition: transform $dur ease-in;
    mix-blend-mode: difference;
    //Gradient start values are somewhat arbitrary. But this seemed a good fit to avoid overly-blurry circle edge.
    background: radial-gradient(
      circle at center, 
      $color-light 24%, 
      $color-dark 25%, 
      $color-dark 100%);
  }  

  box-shadow: 0 3px 0 0 $color-dark;
  &:active {
    top: 3px;
    box-shadow: none;
  }
}

//nope