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HTML

<div class="plus"></div>

CSS

.plus {
  display: block;
  height: 0.6em;
  width: 0.6em;
  font-size: 100px;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 0.5em;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  font-family: Frutiger, "Frutiger Linotype", Univers, Calibri, "Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", "Myriad Pro", Myriad, "DejaVu Sans Condensed", "Liberation Sans", "Nimbus Sans L", Tahoma, Geneva, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: lighter;
  color: #ffffff;
  background-color: #000000;
}
.plus::before {
  display: block;
  content: '+';
}