The crosshair — Wiki

What the crosshair shows, and the one setting it has.

• The crosshair is fixed: four short white arms with a dark edge, and no dot. Nothing changes its colour, size, gap, thickness or style: not the menu, the console, the settings file or the server.

• Its only setting is on or off: Crosshair in the settings menu's HUD list, or Settings.ShowCrosshair 0 (hide) and Settings.ShowCrosshair 1 (show) in the console. It's on by default.

• It follows your hip spread: the arms open as you move and fire, and close as you settle.

• It opens wide when you draw a weapon and closes as the draw finishes.

• Aiming down sights, it closes in and fades out.

• It turns teal (#78b19f) when it's on a teammate.

• Hiding the whole HUD hides it too.

How each weapon's spread works is on the Weapons page.