Draw text in SVG but remove background

Question

I\'m working with an SVG element that should look something like this: (sorry that I have to post this as a link instead of as a picture, but as a new user I didn\'t have pe

Answer 1

I believe a simple way to affect this is to use the user's text as a luminance mask with a big stroke-width set & a black stroke. Next, place the text normally over the masked border.