Graphic Styles

A graphic style is a set of appearance attributes such as stroke weight, color, fill color, and effects, applied to an object. The style can be saved and applied to other objects. You can apply graphic styles to objects, groups, and layers. When you apply a graphic style to a group or layer, every object in the group or layer takes on the attributes of the applied graphic style.

Create a Graphic Style

To create a graphic style, start with a shape or line and apply appearance attributes to it by using the Properties panel or the Appearance panel. Add a stroke, set the color and stroke weight, set the opacity, and add a fill ...

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