New CS2 Crosshair Codes You Can Copy

CS2 crosshair codes explained: settings, styles and what the pros run

cs2crosshaircode.com is a database of CS2 crosshairs you can copy in one click. Every entry is a real share code in the current CS2 format, checked against its own checksum before it goes live, with the 24 settings behind it decoded and shown next to a preview. All 350 of the pro CS2 crosshair codes here come from 62 teams. There are also nine style hubs for when you want a dot or a specific colour, and a generator for building your own from scratch. Nothing here needs an account, a download, or a config file edit.

What a CS2 crosshair code actually contains

A current CS2 crosshair code is <code>CS</code> followed by 44 characters, with no dashes. It packs 24 settings into 32 bytes: style, length, gap and thickness in pixels, the crosshair colour and alpha, the outline mode and its own colour, the centre dot, T-style, follow-recoil, the dynamic spread and split values, the screen height the crosshair was built at, and the scope dot. The first byte is a checksum, which is how we reject the fake codes that circulate on aggregator sites. When you import a code the game applies every one of those values at once, so a pro code gives you their complete crosshair rather than an approximation of it.

Until September 2026 codes started with <code>CSGO-</code>, because CS2 had kept the CS:GO format. The crosshair update replaced that: the 23 and 24 September builds briefly used pixel-based <code>CSGO-</code> codes, and since 30 September (CS2 1.41.8.8) the game only writes and imports the <code>CS…</code> format. If a code you were sent starts with <code>CSGO-</code>, it is out of date. Our decoder converts it, and every code on this site has already been moved over.

Previews drawn in real CS2 pixels

Because the settings live inside the code, we never type them by hand. Every page decodes its code at build time and draws the preview pixel for pixel: since the update, length, gap and thickness are whole screen pixels, gap 0 and 1 both close the cross and each step above that adds a pixel, odd thicknesses centre on a pixel, and the outline is drawn around each bar in its own colour, or along the top and left edges only for a half outline. We draw at 1080p. When a pro changes their crosshair we update the code, and the preview, the settings table and the console commands all move together.

A crosshair that reads perfectly on a dark wall can vanish against sand or sky, which is the real reason colour matters more than size. Rather than guess, drop any preview onto nine surfaces taken from the palettes you actually play on: plaster, concrete, mossy stone, wood, stone wall, brick, sand, sky and dark. They are not map screenshots but a flat contrast test, which is the only part of a map that decides whether you can find your own crosshair.

Which CS2 crosshairs the pros actually use

Across 350 pro CS2 crosshairs the pattern is narrow. Almost every player runs Static Cross (style 4) at a length of 2 to 5 pixels, a gap of 1 or 2, thickness 1 or 2 and no outline, and green and cyan account for most of the colours. Start with donk, ZywOo, s1mple, NiKo or m0NESY, or open the full list and filter by team, colour or style.

What you will not find on those pages is sensitivity, DPI, resolution or gear. None of it travels inside a share code, and we would rather list nothing than publish a number we cannot verify. Team assignments are accurate as of each player’s verified date, printed on their page, and can lag a roster move by a few days.

What makes a good CS2 crosshair

There is no single best CS2 crosshair, and anybody selling you one is guessing. What the good CS2 crosshairs have in common is narrower than the marketing suggests: small enough that it does not cover a head at the range you usually fight at, bright enough to find instantly after a flash, and static, so the bars are not moving while you are trying to read recoil. Everything past those three is preference: some players want a centre dot for pre-aiming a doorway, some cannot stand one.

A practical way to find the best CS2 crosshairs for you: copy three pro codes that look nothing like each other, play a deathmatch with each, and keep the one you stopped noticing. The crosshair you forget about is doing its job. If you want a starting point instead of a shortlist, the small green cross most tier-one riflers run is Static Cross, length 2, gap 1, thickness 2, no outline, colour green, and the settings guide walks through every value and why it is set that way.

Dot, small, static and the rest

The style hubs group codes by what they decode to, not by what a blog claims. Dot CS2 crosshairs remove the bars and leave a single point, which is why it suits rifle players who already trust their spray control. Small covers everything with bars of 3 pixels or shorter. Green and cyan group by colour, no-outline by the missing border, static by Static Cross (style 4), and T-style by the missing top bar. Membership is derived from the decoded cvars, so a player shows up in every hub their code qualifies for and none that it does not. Browse all styles.

Funny, weird and deliberately terrible crosshairs

Not every crosshair is built to win a round. The generator exposes every setting across its full legal range, which means it will happily build the funny CS2 crosshairs people screenshot: bars long enough to reach the edge of the screen, thickness cranked until the cross becomes a solid block, a magenta T-style with the outline switched off, alpha low enough that the whole thing is a ghost. There is no curated joke collection here, because you can make your own in about twenty seconds and get a real, importable share code out of it. The funniest CS2 crosshairs in circulation were all built that way, and so were the unique CS2 crosshairs people actually keep.

Weird CS2 crosshairs are also the fastest way to learn what the settings actually do. Build the worst CS2 crosshairs you can on purpose — giant, thick, dynamic, dark grey, no outline — and every reason the pro setups look the way they do becomes obvious within a minute. Then set the length back to 2 and the gap back to 1 and you will understand why almost nobody moves off it. Whether yours lands among the cool CS2 crosshairs or the crazy CS2 crosshairs is your call; whether it is readable is not, and the nine preview surfaces will tell you which you built.

The generator, decoder and compare tools

The CS2 crosshair generator gives you all ten styles and every pixel setting with a live preview and exports a new-format share code, the console commands, or a PNG. The decoder goes the other way: paste any code, including an old CSGO- one a stranger sent you, and see the crosshair plus every value behind it before you import anything. Compare puts two or three codes side by side on the same surface, the only honest way to choose between crosshairs that look identical in a settings menu. All three run entirely in your browser, so codes you paste never reach a server.