Place stroke on a shape's contour, with no offset

[jansindl3r]

Please, how can I achieve this? I need the stroke to go along letter's contour, not offsetted to be outside of the letter/shape. Thanks!

[gferreira]

hello @jansindl3r,

you can use the contours of the letters as a clipping mask, so the outside half of the stroke is not visible:

size(2000, 1000)
stroke(1, 0, 0)
strokeWidth(30)

B = BezierPath()
B.text('a', (110, 130), fontSize=1400)

# clip external stroke
with savedState():
    clipPath(B)
    drawPath(B)

# normal stroke
translate(1000, 0)
drawPath(B)

cheers!