Is there a way to outline text in a TLabel?

[alank2 5]

So that the font itself is black for example, but it has a white outline immediately around the font, but not the entire background.  I am wanting to overlay a TLabel on top of a graphic and make it visible if the graphic is dark or light.

[M.Joos 29]

AFIK there isn't a way to achieve this with a plain TLabel. 

You need to convert your text to a Path (TPathData) and then render this on a Canvas. Google is your friend for more information.

[alank2 5]

Many of those examples are large fonts like a WordArt type of thing.  Can this approach work on smaller font sizes like 12pt?

 

Thank you for the help!

Edited January 20, 2022 by alank2

[alank2 5]

I'm not in love with it, but I ended up using 5 TLabels - one offset to each corner underneath the real one to give it an outline.

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

Why not override DoDrawText and do whatever you want (glow effect)?

Edited January 24, 2022 by Fr0sT.Brutal

[vfbb 275]

You can just use the StrokeColor property of TSkLabel from Skia4Delphi library: