It's being specified at https://www.w3.org/TR/fill-stroke-3/#propdef-stroke-align .

Note that this ticket / my request is only regarding "stroke-align:outset" for text.

At first, having the "outset" option for nothing but text (HTML and ideally also SVG) would be sufficient from my point of view. It would be a great start regarding implementation of that feature, as most people who need this option do need it for text (I'm pretty sure).

Supporting "outset" for SVG paths etc can then get considered later.

Having "outset" for text strokes is overdue by many many years - it should've been the default all along. Designers/developers almost never want (or expect) the stroke(s) to intrude the glyphs / to take away from the fill of the glyphs.

I (and many others) need this feature. eg:

Chris Coyer (of Codepen and css-tricks.com) in 2010 (seven years ago):
https://css-tricks.com/adding-stroke-to-web-text/
"Only outside text stroke alignment looks any good at all to me. It's unfortunate, both for CSS and for Illustrator, that the unchangeable default is centered."

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26634201/add-stroke-around-text-on-the-outside-with-css
"Add stroke around text - on the outside - with css?"
"The -webkit-text-stroke doesn't support placing the stroke on the outside of the text"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17484262/css-webkit-text-stroke-but-stroke-covers-font-color
"Why [is] the webkit-text-stroke [...] covering [...] the font color?"

https://css-tricks.com/text-stroke-stuck-middle/
"When you set a stroke straddled over the designed edge of a character, you're losing the integrity of the shape."
"And that's the trouble with text-stroke in CSS: you have no choice. It's center-aligned stroke only."

Also, bad workarounds exist.

We need a solution.

As per comment #0 and #3, the issue seems to be a feature request. Hence, marking it as untriaged for further inputs from dev team.

Thanks...!!

BTW, supporting "stroke-align:outset" only for non-transparent colors (at first) would be fine with me.

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Regarding "Components: Blink > SVG":
The feature "stroke-align:outset" applies to HTML text as well, not just SVG text and SVG shapes.

I hope that Blink/Chromium/Chrome will implement "stroke-align:outset" - single and multiple outside strokes for HTML text, and also for SVG text and shapes.

https://www.w3.org/TR/fill-stroke-3/#propdef-stroke-align

Outside strokes:
https://www.w3.org/TR/fill-stroke-3/#propdef-stroke-align
"center | inset | outset"

Multiple strokes:
https://www.w3.org/TR/fill-stroke-3/#stroke-layering
"The stroke of a box can have multiple layers. The number of layers is determined by the larger of the number of comma-separated values for the stroke-image property and the number of comma-separated values for the stroke-color property."