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HTML

<p class="text">
		text
	</p>

CSS

html, body {
      display: flex;
      align-items: center;
      justify-content: center;
      width: 100%;
      min-height: 100vh;
		}
    
		p {
		  font-size: 2em;
      color: red;
      position: relative;
		}
    
		p:before {
			content: '+';
      color: #333;
			font-size: 20rem;
			position: absolute;
      top: 50%;
      left: 50%;
      transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
		}