Comments on: Striping Live Type in Adobe Illustrator

By: Krishna

Krishna — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:57:14 +0000

Finally!! exactly what i have been looking for for a few weeks now!!
perfect!
thanks!

By: lensho

lensho — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:32:24 +0000

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.

By: ToT..Zaa from thailand

ToT..Zaa from thailand — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:51:57 +0000

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 ..

By: Ray Daley

Ray Daley — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:37:31 +0000

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

By: almuth

almuth — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:13:53 +0000

Hi Jeff !
…you definitely proofed that there are countless ways leading to Rome!

By: Jeff Witchel

Jeff Witchel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:23:43 +0000

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

By: almuth

almuth — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:04:42 +0000

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)

By: mike blaq

mike blaq — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:15:10 +0000

wonder full stuff gang please keep up the good work

By: Baldrick

Baldrick — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:08:38 +0000

Top tip!! I’ve a client who uses multi stroke text daily, this will save me loads of time

By: Wilco

Wilco — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:55:40 +0000

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.