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CSS - Combine text shadow with a text outline?

I'm trying to accomplish this (don't mind the red background)enter image description here

So here is what I got I can get a border around the text but then I can't combine it with a text shadow... How can I get around this? Maybe it's something with :before :after statements?

h1, h2 { 
    font-family: Chicago;
    font-size: 38px;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    letter-spacing: 1.73px;
    
    
    

    /*
    text-shadow: 0 0 5px #000000; 
    
    THIS WILL GIVE THE TEXT THE SHADOW*/
    
    text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
    /*THIS WILL GIVE THE TEXT THE BORDER*/
    
    /*How can I combine these two?*/
}
<h1>CSS ZEN GARDEN</h1>
<h1>THE BEAUTY OF CSS DESIGN</h1>

Solution

  • Maybe this solution is what you are looking for:

    h1 {
   -webkit-text-stroke: 1px black;
   color: white;
   text-shadow:
     3px 3px 5px #000,
     -1px -1px 5px #000,  
     1px -1px 5px #000,
     -1px 1px 5px #000,
      1px 1px 5px #000;
}
    <h1>CSS ZEN GARDEN</h1>
<h1>THE BEAUTY OF CSS DESIGN</h1>