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3. Near the bottom of the Tools panel, click the Stroke icon to bring it to the
front of the stack.
The Fill and Stroke icons in the Tools panel are used to change the color of the related
attributes. Clicking one of these buttons brings it to the front of the stack (makes it
active) so you can change the color of that attribute.
Use these pop-up panels to
change the fill or stroke Note:
color of the selected object.
It is very easy to forget
to check which icon
(fill or stroke) is on
Selection tool
top of the stack. If you
forget and accidentally
change the color of the
wrong attribute, simply
The object is selected
with the Selection tool. undo the change (press
Command/Control-Z)
and bring the correct
attribute to the front
Clicking a swatch in before changing colors.
the Swatches panel
changes the color of
the active attribute.

Clicking the Stroke
icon brings it in
front of the Fill icon.

4. In the Swatches panel, click the gold swatch at the end of the first row.
Because the Stroke icon is active in the Tools panel, the color of the selected object’s
stroke (border) changes to gold.

5. In the Tools panel, click the Fill icon to bring it to the front of the stack.
In the Swatches panel, click the black swatch in the first row.

Because the Fill icon is active in the Tools panel, clicking the black color swatch changes
the fill color of the selected object.

These swatches reflect the
colors that are applied to
the selected object.

Use this swatch
for the fill color.
Use this swatch
for the stroke color.

Make sure the correct
attribute is selected if
you use the stand-alone
Swatches panel to
change attribute colors.

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