Draw Outlined Text

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mothmanbr

Is there an easy way to do it? I don't mean only draw the text outline, but draw it like in movie subtitles, where the text color is yellow or white, and it has a 1-pixel wide black line surrounding it to make it visible no matter if the background is dark or light.

I've though about drawing the text twice, first in bold and and then normal, but the alignment wouldn't work depending on the font and I would need to draw it letter by letter.

If I couldn't explain myself correctly, here's an image:

Thanks once again :P