Hotkey/stack text with bartender4

[feraldrood]

local nfns, font, size = NumberFontNormalSmall
font, size = NumberFontNormalSmall:GetFont()
nfns:SetFont("Fonts\\CharriotDeluxe.ttf", 8, "OUTLINE, MONOCHROME")
nfns:SetShadowColor(0, 0, 0, 0)

Using this code in every imaginable .lua file- even ones not pertaining to bartender (cleanhotkey)

Font for hot-key is still set to about size 10 and is not mono-chromed. The stack text isn't even the font I have specified let alone sizing. What am I doing wrong here?

If anyone is having any luck with monochrome/outline fonts for stack and hotkey in bartender, or any other addon
Tell me how you are doing it!!

also operating off of a freeui base, have messed with all the scripts in that, I was able to get the fonts rendered correctly when I enabled the bars. I am invested in keeping bartender however, so let me know if you have a fix for this.