Ability to pre-select Fill Color for the Type tool, rather than defaulting to Black text.
Ability to pre-select Fill Color for the Type tool, rather than defaulting to Black text. This allows for more flexibility and efficiency for using the type tool throughout a project with multiple text colors.
Landon Merrill
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I totally get it, and I can’t really tell how to break this paradigm gently enough.
The color of a text object is controlled by the style.
Overriding the style, but only by color (leading, font family, size, kerning) seems like a useful thing, but then again not exactly consistent. People don’t know how to bring a bounding box back, and this option, wherever it’s put, can be too well-hidden to discover it or to toggle it back if you forgot about it being enabled... something similar to Paste Remembers Layers, or Use Preview Bounds.
I can’t say I’m scared of it :)Where would you put it, this option? How would you call it to make people understand what it does?
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Egor, unfortunately the Paragraph Styles is not what I was referring to. This sets the default type color for the entire document, and I'd like the ability to create each new instance of the type tool with the pre-selected Fill color, which may vary multiple times in a project. I feel like this is how the application should work and it seems counterintuitive for the Type tool to not reflect the fill-color when all of the other tools do so.
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Landon, it’s easy to do right now.
1. Type some text.
2. Change the color (you can also can change font, text size, anything).
3. Open Window > Type > Paragraph Styles panel
4. Notice it has [Normal Pargraph Style]+ in it — with a plus in the end, meaning it’s been modified compared to the default settings
5. Click the hamburger button in the top right corner to open the panel’s menu, choose Redefine Paragraph Style
Done! Now every new text you create in THIS document will use the paragraph style you just defined.If you want to change it for every NEW document, you’d have to do the same for the document profile file Ai uses to base new documents upon. These are different: Prin.ai, Web.ai... Ai now displays them as categories in modern File > New dialog, but actually these are document profiles.
You can read more about the procedure here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/create-custom-new-document-profile.html
Once you learn how it’s done — it’s rather easy and logical.Please comment back if the method works for you.
