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Fill and stroke

Fill and stroke - Illustrator Tutorial

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Fill and stroke

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The basic appearance of an Illustrator object is made-up of the fill and stroke attributes and whenever you are drawing a shape if you press D on the keyboard you can revert back to the default appearance which would be white fill and one point black stroke. When you create the object you will be able to see these options showing up here in the control bar. So there's my white fill, there is the black stroke and there is the stroke width which is one point. You can also find these in the properties panel as long as the object is still selected under the appearance section so white fill, black stroke with one point size. You can quickly swap the two colors between these two attributes so the fill and the stroke colors can be swapped by pressing shift x. You can see how it's updating both in the properties panel and also here in the artboard or if you just press x on the keyboard you can switch between the selected attribute. This will only be visible in the toolbar here at the bottom…

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