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HTML

<body>
   <p>of <a href="">complex information systems</a>.</p>
    
  </body>

CSS

body {
  font-family: Sans-serif;
  color: #c2c2c2;
  font-size: 28px;
  text-align: center;
  background: #fcfcfc;
  padding: 2em 0;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
  color: red;
  font-weight: bold;  
  
 
 
}

a:before {
  content: "complex information systems";
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  color: #fcfcfc;
  top: 33px;  
  transform: translate(2px,0);
  text-shadow: -5px -2px #fcfcfc;
  z-index: -1;
  
}


a:after {
  content: '';
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  width: 99%;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  transform: translate(1px,-5px);
  z-index: -3;
  opacity: 1;    
}