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HTML
<div class="metric good"></div>
CSS
body {
text-align: center;
padding-top: 50px;
}
.metric {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
height: 150px;
width: 50%;
background: lawngreen;
}
.metric:after {
position: absolute;
top: -25px;
left: 0;
content: '';
background: white;
width: 100%;
height: 0;
border: 75px solid white; /* this fixed width is the problem */
border-top: none;
border-bottom: 25px solid lawngreen;
box-sizing: border-box;
}