HTML5 Canvas Text Outline

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HTML5 Canvas Text Outline

CSS Stroke Text Using text-shadow. The idea is to have multiple shadows combined all around the text to give the illusion of a real stroke text.

Sample code for CSS text stroke definitive guide on coding-dude.com

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License.

index.html

<canvas id="myCanvas" width="850" height="300"></canvas>

<footer>The Definitive Guide to <a href="http://www.coding-dude.com/wp/css/css-stroke-text/">Stroke Text CSS</a> made by <a href="http://www.coding-dude.com">Coding Dude</a></footer>

script.js

var myCanvas = document.querySelector("#myCanvas");
var ctx = myCanvas.getContext("2d");

ctx.strokeStyle = "red";
ctx.lineWidth = 3;
ctx.font = "70px sans-serif";
ctx.textBaseline = "middle";
ctx.textAlign = "center";
ctx.strokeText("CANVAS TEXT OUTLINE", myCanvas.width / 2, myCanvas.height / 2);

style.css

:root{
  font-size:75px;
  font-family:sans-serif;
  font-weight:bold;
  text-align:center;
  margin-top:30vh;
}

footer{
  position:absolute;
  bottom:50px;
  right:50px;
  font-size:13px;
}