Adding graphic styles to your text while keeping the type editable.
Author: jeff witchel
Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
That is a pretty great tip. Thanks!
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with the live type if you click on it with selection tool to make the fill and stroke attributes dissapear in the panel.. All you have to do is click on fly out menu and choose add new fill or stroke.. and then you can do all of this on the fly with live text.. You may already know this but it seems like and easier and more direct approach.
Good tut though.. I’ve watched many of yours..
many times I searched thiz tipe method. but I’m couldn’t succeeded. so diz is da first time I’m learnt.so thnk you very much JEFF. thanks again.
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Thank you for the tute, Jeff AND to James, thank YOU very much for your comment! I tried it your way and your method is indeed a more direct method to get the same results as well as saving it as a graphic style. Thanks again to both!
Yes James is right, there is a much easier way in which you can add multiple strokes and fills to an object/live type and also apply filters and effects to the strokes or fills.
Create some live Type, select it with the selection tool, Go to the appearance panel (Make sure “Type” is selected in the appearance panel, not “Characters”) and click on the fly out menu. Choose add new fill or stroke. To move the stroke behind the text you will have to drag the strokes (now shown in the appearance panel) below the “Characters” section.
As mentioned above you can also add different stroke types, filters and effects to each stroke or fill.
And you can still change the text on the fly.
Pretty handy.
Top tip!! I’ve a client who uses multi stroke text daily, this will save me loads of time
wonder full stuff gang please keep up the good work
James you are right! …tried it out (my tip: don’t double click your text, just select it…then the “new stroke/fill” is available by clicking on the fly out)
Hi James, Almuth, Wilco, and All Others,
Hmm! Interesting!
Just goes to show you, no one can possibly know everything. Not even the “Layers tips guy.”
Your way is obviously a lot faster and more direct than my workaround. Sounds like a good Tip of the Day to me.
All my best,
Jeff
Hi Jeff !
…you definitely proofed that there are countless ways leading to Rome!
I’m new at Illustrator and this tip is invaluable! I have been trying to figure out how to do this for quite some time.
Thanks for sharing!
Ray
in appearance ..
no fill – no stroke in caracters
add new stroke in type
move caracters in type
double click caracters and fill colour
or select caracter at want to fill colour
and you can add more strokes in type.
i’m foolish English language .. sorry.
Good luck ..
Yeap, I agree with Toot..Zaa, you don’t need to do create outlines from text to add more strokes to it.
-Select your text
-Then in the appearance palette (Window– Appearance) remove the fill and stroke from text from ‘CHARACTER’, then double click the word ‘TYPE’ (just above ‘CHARACTER’ inside the Appearance palette) then you can duplicate strokes or add more fill colors, effects, and what ever you want
also if you drag that text to graphic styles you can apply the same effect to anything else by selecting an object then click on your created style from the graphic style palette.
Finally!! exactly what i have been looking for for a few weeks now!!
perfect!
thanks!