Illustrator

Create graphic styles

You can create a graphic from scratch by applying appearance attributes to an object, or you can base a graphic style off of other graphic styles. You can also duplicate existing graphic styles.

Create a graphic style

  1. Select an object and apply any combination of appearance attributes, including fills and strokes, effects, and transparency settings.

    You can use the Appearance panel to adjust and order the appearance attributes and create multiple fills and strokes. For example, you can have three fills in a graphic style, each with a different opacity and blending mode that defines how the various colors interact.

  2. Do any of the following:

    • Click the New Graphic Style button  in the Graphic Styles panel.

    • Select New Graphic Style from the panel menu.

    • Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance panel (or the object from the illustration window) into the Graphic Styles panel.

    • Alt‑click (Windows) or Option‑click (Mac OS) the New Graphic Style button, enter the name of the graphic style, and click OK.

      Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance panel to the Graphic Styles panel to save the attributes.

Create a new graphic style based on two or more existing graphic styles

 Ctrl‑click (Windows) or Command‑click (Mac OS) to select all the graphic styles you want to merge, and then choose Merge Graphic Styles from the panel menu.

The new graphic style contains all the attributes of the selected graphic styles and is added to the end of the list of graphic styles in the panel.

Duplicate a graphic style

 Choose Duplicate Graphic Style from the panel menu, or drag the graphic style onto the New Style button.

The new graphic style appears at the bottom of the list in the Graphic Styles panel.