HOW DO I GIVE TEXT AN OUTLINE?

HEY ER'1!!

i want to give some text i am creating for a design i am doing an outline. what im actually trying to do is create a stencil of text to paint onto a surface. im going to convert it into a vector so i can then export it into my plotter software, but i cant figure out how to give the text an outline (kinda like VARSITY style has a thick border around it and u can change the color of that border).

can someone please help?