In the image below, the top image is what I currently have on a site, it uses an actual Image.
What I want to do is make something more like the bottom image using pure CSS, I cannot figure out how to do it though, can anyone help?

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CSS3 has a lot of solutions. Try this:
Though you can change the color to blue, if you want.
Here is a great link for all the info you could want.