Drawin cool simple text in XNA

I was wondering how to use some cool font in my XNA game. I came up with an idea to draw white and black text with an offset to give it “3d” look.

Here is the result:

I made extension methods for SpriteBatch  that write this kind of text

public static class ExtensionMethods   
{       /// <summary>
        /// Draws white text with a black stroke
        /// </summary>
        public static void DrawStringBlackAndWhite(this SpriteBatch spriteBatch, SpriteFont smallFont, String text, Vector2 position)
        {
            spriteBatch.DrawStringWithStroke(smallFont, text, position, Color.White, Color.Black);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Draws white text with a black stroke
        /// </summary>
        public static void DrawStringBlackAndWhite(this SpriteBatch spriteBatch, SpriteFont smallFont, StringBuilder text, Vector2 position)
        {
            spriteBatch.DrawStringWithStroke(smallFont, text, position, Color.White, Color.Black);
        }

		/// <summary>
		/// Draws string with a stroke on up and right side of text
		/// </summary>
		public static void DrawStringWithStroke(this SpriteBatch spriteBatch, SpriteFont smallFont, String text, Vector2 position, Color color, Color stroke)
		{
			spriteBatch.DrawString(smallFont, text, position, stroke);
			spriteBatch.DrawString(smallFont, text, new Vector2(position.X - 1, position.Y + 1), color);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Draws string with a stroke on up and right side of text
		/// </summary>
		public static void DrawStringWithStroke(this SpriteBatch spriteBatch, SpriteFont smallFont, StringBuilder text, Vector2 position, Color color, Color stroke)
		{
			spriteBatch.DrawString(smallFont, text, position, stroke);
			spriteBatch.DrawString(smallFont, text, new Vector2(position.X - 1, position.Y + 1), color);
		}
	}

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