Responsive CSS triangle with percents width

You could use a skewed and rotated pseudo element to create a responsive triangle under the link :

DEMO (resize the result window to see how it reacts)

The triangle maintains it's aspect ratio with the padding-bottom property.

If you want the shape to adapt it's size according to it's content, you can remove the width on the .btn class

.btn {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  height: 50px; width: 50%;
  text-align: center;
  color: white;
  background: gray;
  line-height: 50px;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding-bottom: 15%;
  background-clip: content-box;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.btn:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  top:50px;  left: 0;
  background-color: inherit;
  padding-bottom: 50%;
  width: 57.7%;
  z-index: -1;
  transform-origin: 0 0;
  transform: rotate(-30deg) skewX(30deg);
}
/** FOR THE DEMO **/

body {
  background: url('http://i.imgur.com/qi5FGET.jpg');
  background-size: cover;
}

<a href="#" class="btn">Hello!</a>

For more info on responsive triangles and how to make them, you can have a look at Triangles with transform rotate (simple and fancy responsive triangles)

I found solution that works with any width/height. You can use two pseudo-elements with linear-gradient background, like this, (fiddle):

.btn {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 100px;
    height: 50px;
    text-align: center;
    color: white;
    background: gray;
    line-height: 50px;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.btn:before {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    top: 100%;
    right: 0;
    width: 50%;
    height: 10px;
    background: linear-gradient(to right bottom, gray 50%, transparent 50%)
}

.btn:after {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    top: 100%;
    left: 0;
    width: 50%;
    height: 10px;
    background: linear-gradient(to left bottom, gray 50%, transparent 50%)
}

Another solution to this would be to use a CSS clip-path to clip a triangle out of a coloured block. No IE support however, but could be used for internal tools etc.

DEMO

Written with SCSS for ease.

.outer {
  background: orange;
  width: 25%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  padding: 1em;

  p {
    margin: 0;
    text-align: center;
    color: #fff;
  }

  &:after {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    top: 100%;
    left: 0; 
    right: 0;
    padding-bottom: 10%;
    background: orange;
    -webkit-clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 100% 0%, 50% 100%);
    clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 100% 0%, 50% 100%);
  }

}