Text and the Canvas Context

We’ve already discussed a couple Canvas context properties that affect the canvas in a global fashion: fillStyle and strokeStyle. However, there are two areas that visually demonstrate how changes to the properties of the context can affect the entire HTML5 Canvas: alpha transparencies and shadows.

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