Strange outline Behavior

Hello fellows Jimkiters!
I genuinely don’t know if this is an intentional feature or not.
But I was messing around with texts

  • I make a “. . . . .” works with any amount of dots
  • Set its outline to max

and um…


Even crazier is that different fonts make different patterns

Why is this happening?
What other stuff in texts can do this?
Is this a bug?
What is going on???

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Ok, that is pretty cool.

We are GIMkitters not Jimkitters.. Lol :wink:
about the fonts, yes they do that. Why? I don’t know.

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Is this a bug or what tho

the size is at 22 if it helps, forgot to say that

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Don’t know. Let me test it out. I always keep a gimkit page open.
What type of dot is it?? A period?

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yes a period
.

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This might be one of those very special symbols you get by typing certain letters or keyboard stuff like > # W % X ( & ` in a certain order.

Edit: I just realized it’s the “Stroke Width” border and different fonts that are causing this. :\

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This is not a bug. I tested it. Every dot has different styles.

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Yeah, just checked on 5 different computers. Not-a-bug. (TL3 add the tag or is it too much to ask?)

Get it right gangleton
GIMKITTERS
Yeah this is actually pretty cool tho
image
Edit: GUYS IT’S BACK

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Oh wow, very cool!

I believe most, if not all special characters will undergo the same outlining effect.

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Wait wait I wanna revive this this is a interesting concept for in-game art

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The not-a-bug tag is only for Bugs topics. Why this tag exists, I don’t know. Its pretty useless in my opinion.

Also I’m pretty sure this is a bug. As most fonts leave their period image the same as an Ariel font, the outline should not change depending on the font. Although, @Gimkitsuggestor is definitely right about this being a neat in game art technique!

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alright, tell us something related and intresting

i can remove it
this was originally a bug topic

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ahh ok thx for clearing that up

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LEts think… Um maybe cool patterned floors? and maybe some of the designs for cartoony eyes?

with this we could maybe tinker with other sorts of this type of outlining Behavior to see if we can find new patterns and sorts?

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Custom patterns for the shield prop? The ones cut into quarters could be used for a crash-test dummy.


Can someone supply me with the number of fonts possible, and the max number of how much str0ke width can be used? I wanna try something.


Okay, if there’re 15 fonts, and 37 sizes of str0ke width (including 0) then there should be…

555 different ways to make these symbols.

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hmm your onto smth, hopefully someone knows
cuz sadly I dont… rn Doing english class rn

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Question, does text size have an effect


Edit: Yes it does, and quite an intresting thing happened with the text size.
The dot grew, but the outline did not, creating this.
Screenshot 2025-12-02 5.57.50 PM
At 144(The last dot), it looks completely normal.
At 1(The first dot), we were able to completely hide the dot, leaving just the outline pattern.

Good to know!


outline color can be changed yk


barbed wire

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