Creating and modifying styles
A style can contain any combination of color, fill, stroke, pattern, effect (that is, any command listed under the Effect menu), transparency, blend mode, gradient, transformation, and the like. Each style can contain multiple attributes. For example, you can have three fills in a style, each with a different opacity and blend mode that defines how the various colors interact. Similarly, you can have multiple strokes.
To create or modify a style: - Do one of the following:
- Select an object.
- Select a style in the Styles palette to use as a starting set of attributes.
- Start with no object or style selected.
- Specify the appearance attributes you want, such as the fill or the stroke. You can use the Appearance palette to help specify and order the appearance attributes. (See Working with appearance attributes.)
- Do one of the following:
- Click the New Style button
at the bottom of the Styles palette. - Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance palette into the Styles palette or onto the New Style button at the bottom of the Styles palette.
Dragging a thumbnail from the Appearance palette to the Styles palette. - Drag the object with the appearance attributes you want into the Styles palette or onto the New Style button at the bottom of the Styles palette.
- Choose New Style from the Styles palette menu, enter a name for the style, and click OK. The new style appears at the bottom of the list in the Styles palette.
- Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the New Style button, enter the name of the style, and click OK.
To create a new style by merging existing styles: - In the Styles palette, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select all the styles you want to merge.
- Choose Merge Styles from the palette menu.
The new style contains all the attributes of the selected styles and is added to the end of the list of styles in the palette.
To replace style attributes: Do one of the following: - Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the style you want to use onto the style you want to replace.
- Select artwork (or target an item in the Layers palette) that has the attributes you want to use. Then Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the thumbnail from the Appearance palette onto the style you want to replace in the Styles palette.
- Select the style you want to replace. Then select artwork (or target an item in the Layers palette) that has the attributes you want to use, and choose Redefine Style "Style name" from the Appearance palette menu.
The replaced style keeps its name but takes on new appearance attributes. All occurrences of the style in the Illustrator document are updated to use the new attributes.
To duplicate a style: - In the Styles palette, select the style you want to duplicate.
- Choose Duplicate Style from the Styles palette menu.
The new style appears at the bottom of the list in the Styles palette.
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