Make grids more useful
I'm a fan of grids. I use the grid almost always whenever I need one.
I have to use the default 'In Back' grid and turn 'Overprint preview' on, to make the grid overlay my art, so I can see what I'm doing and where I'm snapping (because the cursor does not give any feedback about this).
But the method it's not perfect because of bugs I reported here and there.
So I propose to improve options we have.
Allow users to set grid’s color (check) and transparency, give an option to define line width — some monitors are too dense and huge to have 1px line.
It could be useful for dark designs, when the overprint-grid trick doesn't do much.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
shared this idea
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It looks like CADguides panel from the CADtools plugin offers a way to customize grid colors, without any relaunch. No way to make stroke weights and opacity though, but I suppose API just doesn’t allow this for plugins.
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Sergey Osokin
commented
It is realistic to have color control of subdivisions in the interface because Adobe already has it in code.
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Sergey Osokin
commented
In the App Preferences, we set a single grid color. But the subdivision lines are drawn in a lightened version of the grid color, which the user cannot control.
In scripting, there are grid color keys:
Grid/Color/Dark/r,
Grid/Color/Dark/g,
Grid/Color/Dark/b
and subdivision color keys
Grid/Color/Light/r,
Grid/Color/Light/g,
Grid/Color/Light/b.Why not let users customize this color in the Illustrator interface? For example, two-color accent grids can be created for those who want to clearly see the dimensions of large and small cells.
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Paul Messer
commented
Currently we can set a color for gridlines. Could we specify a transparency for these lines too? Having gridlines in the foreground that do not completely write over the project would be great.
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Derek S.
commented
+1 for custom transparency level for grids
