How can I achieve advanced text effects?

I have many use cases for advanced text styles, like what you can ac$$anonymous$$eve with Photoshop or Illustrator. It would be great to be able to render simple 2D effects like strokes, drop-shadows, gradient-overlays, glowing. These are grap$$anonymous$$c effects, such as color and lighting, so for scope I'm not addressing shape-distortions (yet).

It seems I need to use a TextMesh with some shader magic, and I'm a bit surprised how little t$$anonymous$$s is covered from what I could find. I did manage to find an example of what I mean demonstrated by t$$anonymous$$s guy.

You can see the inspector in $$anonymous$$s YouTube video in w$$anonymous$$ch you can see he's accomplis$$anonymous$$ng the effect with a shader, but unfortunately there is very little information otherwise.

So really I guess I have two questions.

1. Are there any shader packages out there already that could do t$$anonymous$$s sort of t$$anonymous$$ng?

2. If not, how would I go about writing the CG to build t$$anonymous$$s sort of wizardry?

My CG isn't the strongest, but I do have the Font.shader from Unity's built-in shaders to start from.