Text stroke with CSS

There is a non-standard way to stroke HTML text (SVG has a standard way). It’s not particularly new. There are -webkit- and -moz- prefixes for it. Jen Simmons recently posted about it, with an example:

CSS

span {
     -moz-text-fill-color: #fde;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: #fde;
     -moz-text-stroke-color: #666;
  -webkit-text-stroke-color: #666;
     -moz-text-stroke-width: 2px;  
  -webkit-text-stroke-width: 2px;
}

And she’s right:

This CSS isn’t fully-baked or fully-supported. But it’s good enough to be used today, especially since it’s simply offering a visual enhancement. It’s not mission critical to making a website usable.

I’d only perhaps add that if you were going to do something like add a stroke around white text, you could wrap it in a @supports to be extra sure it’ll be OK (just in case a browser exists that supports text-fill-color but not text-stroke-color) :

CSS

@supports 
  ((-webkit-text-stroke-color: #666)
  and
  (-webkit-text-fill-color: white))
  or
  ((-moz-text-stroke-color: #666)
  and
  (-moz-text-fill-color: white)) {
  span {
       -moz-text-fill-color: white;
    -webkit-text-fill-color: white;
       -moz-text-stroke-color: #666;
    -webkit-text-stroke-color: #666;
       -moz-text-stroke-width: 2px;  
    -webkit-text-stroke-width: 2px;
  }
}

See the link for more tricks, and the comments make a good point that you don’t have to use text-fill-color if you’re using @supports: just use color.

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