CSS - Is it possible to add a black outline around each character in text?
You can simulate it with the CSS 2.1 text-shadow property:
p {
color: #fff;
text-shadow: 1px 0 0 #000, 0 -1px 0 #000, 0 1px 0 #000, -1px 0 0 #000;
}
This is, of course, not supported in IE9 and below. See: http://www.jsfiddle.net/yijiang/UCjgg/ for a simple demo.
There is an explicit -webkit way to add text outline, which is with -text-stroke. This is the experimental implementation of the equivalent standards track proposal (called text-outline in the CSS3 spec docs).
While we wait for text-stroke to be widely supported, there's a pretty good "text-shadow hack" generator out there to generate the text-shadow property you need.
https://owumaro.github.io/text-stroke-generator/
h1 {
color:#00ff19;
text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) 3px 0px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 2.83487px 0.981584px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 2.35766px 1.85511px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 1.62091px 2.52441px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 0.705713px 2.91581px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -0.287171px 2.98622px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -1.24844px 2.72789px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -2.07227px 2.16926px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -2.66798px 1.37182px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -2.96998px 0.42336px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -2.94502px -0.571704px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -2.59586px -1.50383px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -1.96093px -2.27041px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -1.11013px -2.78704px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) -0.137119px -2.99686px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 0.850987px -2.87677px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 1.74541px -2.43999px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 2.44769px -1.73459px 0px, rgb(0, 0, 0) 2.88051px -0.838247px 0px;
}<h1>yayyy text</h1>