Hi, thank you for using Ebiten!

There is no such feature unfortunately so far. I'll add a task as a new feature.

Yes, I think it's possible with shaders. Rendering a text on an offscreen once and rendering the offscreen onto the destination with a shader (to render the border) should work. Let me think for a while...

Thank you! If it helps anyone else, a nice workaround I'm using now is to just use a font that has both a filled and an outlined variant, for example: https://www.dafont.com/becak.font
I found this by searching "font with outline and fill"

A rough, but simple way to work around this is to simply render the font multiple times, offsetting it and changing the color to make outlines or shadows. Outlines would be blocky, though~

@eihigh already has a solution on this issue :-)

https://github.com/eihigh/canvas

https://github.com/eihigh/canvas

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/eihigh/canvas#Font As I expected, this is only for a SNFT font

Yes, I believe its functionality is adequate.

https://github.com/eihigh/canvas/blob/v0.0.2/font/font.go#L20-L32

I see.

I think I can implement a similar thing with the semi-official library https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/image/font/sfnt#Font and Ebitengine's vector library.

I've succeeded to render a sfnt glyph with the vector package

Though I didn't add any new APIs, I could make a proof of concept.

In order to make a new API, we have to consider an API to accept sfnt.Font instead of font.Face...

If we add a new API, we have to consider other things related to text.

• text: Rendering texts correctly in Arabic/Thai/Hindi... #675
• text: redesign APIs (text/v2) #2454

I'll reset the milestone to v2.6.0. We need to redesign text-related things.