Performant outlines on bitmap fonts

After many years of waiting, is there a solution in 2021 to this? I don’t mind manually drawing outlines manually into the atlas, but they get cutoff by TextMesh for some reason. Is there a step by step method of adding outlines and shadows that are pixel sharp and don’t use that horrible dilation system?

 

This:


Looks like this in Unity:

 

Okay, here's the secret sauce:

 

Bonus trick, load this into Asprite and turn the black text into white:


Add outline:


Finally, ad a shadow by duplicating the original black text layer and offsetting underneath.