How to Add a Multiple Stroke Effect in Krita

Krita: Multiple Stroke Text Effect, Stacked Strokes Method, Layer Docker (2025)

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Krita's layer docker showing the steps to create a multiple stroke effect on a text layer. The text layer is inside a layer group called "Orange Stroke (5px)" that has a layer style. This group is inside another group, which is inside another, and so on. In order: Orange Stroke (5px), 1st White Stroke (5px), 1st Purple Stroke (5px), 2nd Purple Stroke (20px), 3rd Purple Stroke (8px), and 2nd White Stroke (5px). Unusually large layer thumbnails show the effect of each style being applied.

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The layer structure in Krita of a multiple stroke effect applied to a text by placing the text layer inside a group and adding a stroke layer style to the group, then repeating this process for each additional stroke.

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