Artboard background color needs to be user-assignable
We need to be able to change artboard background color.
Working on pure white is straining on the eyes and it's rarely appropriate for non-print projects (99% of my work). Having to draw colored rectangles, lock them or put them on separate layers, and then manage them when we resize or duplicate artboards is painful and tedious.
Let's have an icon for it next to the artboard name (in the Artboard palette) where we can choose a swatch (including transparent).
Let's support changing multiple artboard colors at once with multi-selection.
Thank you!
nate
shared this idea
Illustrator allows option to Simulate Color Paper, whereby user can pick any color as the background. (This is accessible from File -> Document Setup)
Does this help solve the described concerns?
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Damian
commented
Right now if I choose a dark interface for Illustrator, my two choices of canvas color are dark gray or pure white. Why can't I pick an abritrary shade of gray?
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Pierre-Francesco Costa commented
View > Show Transparency Grid
then
File > Document Setup
You're welcome ;)
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Anonymous
commented
this is needed asap please... doing all white text designs is impossible with the default of white in edit mode. the workaround is to place a colored rectangle, then remove it on export.
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Eli Crow commented
More importantly, exporting artboards with a rectangle as a"background color" is highly error-prone. I have on multiple occassions exported a file, only to have someone else catch a 1 or 2px white border. I have to tediously adjust the rectangle and re-export. Artboard background colors would make this mistake impossible.
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Dan
commented
Object > Artboards > Fit to selected art
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Vic
commented
Artboard Options
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nate
commented
To really be low-light friendly, the non-artboard canvas color should to be user-assignable as well. Would be right at home under [Prefs/General] or [Prefs/User Interface].
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WilliamJaramilloSTAAR
commented
Color an artboard without needing to simulate colors in the document setup and toggling the "Show transparency grid".
It would be cool to for example have a white version of a logo for example without having to put something behind to create contrast and maybe going farther down the road setting the preview to display the background.