Using the Brushes palette


    You use the Brushes palette to manage the brushes for a document. By default, the Brushes palette contains several brushes of each type. You can create new brushes, modify existing brushes, and delete the brushes you don't use.

    Brushes that you create and store in the Brushes palette are associated only with the current file. Each Illustrator file can have a different set of brushes in its Brushes palette.

    Displaying the Brushes palette

    Choose Window > Brushes.

    Using the palette menu

    Click the triangle triangle icon in the upper right corner of the palette.

    Selecting brushes

    Do any of the following:

    • To select a single brush, click it.
    • To select adjacent brushes, click the first brushes in the desired range, and then Shift-click the last. To select nonadjacent brushes, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) them.
    • To select all brushes that aren't used in a document, choose Select All Unused from the Brushes palette menu.

    Showing and hiding brushes

    You can view all brushes or just certain types of brushes. To show or hide a type of brushes, choose any of the following from the palette menu: Show Calligraphic Brushes, Show Scatter Brushes, Show Art Brushes, Show Pattern Brushes.

    Changing the view of brushes

    Choose a view option from the palette menu: Thumbnail View or List View.

    Changing the order of brushes

    Drag a brush to a new location in the Brushes palette. You can move brushes only within their type. For example, you cannot move a Calligraphic brush to the Scatter brush area.

    Deleting brushes

    Select the brushes to delete, and click the Delete Brush button Delete icon. Alternatively, drag the selection to the Delete Brush button, or choose Delete Brush from the palette menu.