Color and Strokes, Add Text, and Create with Drawing Tools

Vector artwork in Illustrator can have a ______(border) and a fill. The fill or stroke can be a color, gradient, or pattern.

• Line

• Shape

• Stroke

• Gradient

Find the fill color and stroke color in the Properties panel to the right of the document. Clicking the fill color or stroke color reveals colors saved in a document, called _________, by default.

• Swatches

• Grids

• Gradients

• Color Picker

Open the ________ ________ by double-clicking the stroke or fill box at the bottom of the Tools panel on the left. Use it to create a custom color visually, by entering color values, or by choosing from a library of color.

• Stroke Panel

• Pathfinder Panel

• Gradients Panel

• Color Picker

Save _________ colors as swatches by clicking the fill color or stroke color in the Properties panel to the right of the document and selecting the Swatches option to reveal the swatches in the document.

• Default

• Library

• Custom

Click the ____ _______ button at the bottom of the panel that appears to add a new swatch.

• Color Themes

• New Group

• Show Kinds

• New Swatch

In the __________ panel, you can align the stroke to the path with Align options, select the Dashed Line option to apply a dash, set dash options, select an arrowhead for the start and/or end of a path, and set sizing options

• Fill

• Stroke

• Layers

• Recolor

_______________ blend from one color to another.

• Rainbows

• Gradients

• Patterns

• Solids

Apply a default gradient to the fill or stroke of artwork by clicking the fill color or stroke color in the Properties panel to the right of the document and selecting a saved gradient swatch. Click ___________ ___________ to open the Gradient panel.

• Pathfinder Panel

• Align Panel

• Gradient Options

• Libraries Options

In the Gradient panel, select the fill color. Double-click ___________ _________ in the color ramp to edit them.

• Gradient Slider

• Gradient Stop

• Gradient Options

• Reverse Gradient

Select the _____________ tool in the Tools panel. Drag across artwork with a gradient fill to change the length, direction, and duration of a gradient.

• Slider

• Fill

• Stoke

• Gradient