Within the context of Houdini, the Paint API is less weird to me now. There are so many warts in CSS that I really wish I could customize. For example if I wan

Within the context of Houdini, the Paint API is less weird to me now. There are so many warts in CSS that I really wish I could customize. For example if I wanted to add a outside-aligned instead of center-aligned stroke to text, you can only accomplish it with lots of hacks: https://css-tricks.com/text-stroke-stuck-middle/ https://css-tricks.com/text-stroke-stuck-middle/ https://css-tricks.com/adding-stroke-to-web-text/ https://css-tricks.com/adding-stroke-to-web-text/. Using pseudoelements hidden behind, a circle of text-shadows, etc. I wonder if there's anything in the Houdini project that will let me fix this. This paint api is useless to me since it doesn't give me the original contents of the dom being styled (so I would need to redraw the text, style it and layout it on my own). The solution I ended up with is using svg filters: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/05/why-the-svg-filter-is-awesome/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/05/why-the-svg-filter-.... But a unified solution to customizing CSS without needing to call it a hack would be nice.