Lauren Osborne
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Since version CS6, Illustrator allows to align gradients on strokes with a dedicated set of Align Stroke buttons in the full expanded Stroke panel.
An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment As far as I know, the original poster's request still stands. It is not solved by converting to a stroke. We still need an option that is the equivalent of "apply gradient to stroke" but for gradient fills instead. If you have a shape like the curved example the OP attached, you want to be able to apply a gradient fill along the curve of the shape without having to first take multiple steps to convert that shape back to a centerline open-ended path just to apply the "apply gradient to stroke" option. Sometimes you need your shapes to stay as closed paths with fills, not as strokes.
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59 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment A tool or function for creating centerlines from linearly oriented shapes would be extremely useful. I recently had to use a workaround to convert a shape back to an open-ended path along the centerline of the shape so that I could use the "apply gradient along a stroke" option. Along those lines, if we can get the creating centerlines thing figured out, it would also potentially allow for another super useful function which would be to have the gradient fill equivalent of "apply gradient along a stroke" so that a gradient fill could follow the linear orientation of a shape without having to do a freeform gradient fill. Please and thank you!
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8 votes
Egor, I'm not entirely sure. It's hard to tell what method was used for the gradient in the screenshot you shared, but it looks more like the freeform gradient method than what OP and I are referring to. I'm thinking more of a linear gradient fill that follows the curves of a closed path shape. I think the freeform gradient is fine for slightly more complicated shapes (like in the screenshot) but I'm thinking more about simpler shapes that have a linear orientation that's not just one straight line. Like the curved shape the OP attached or an "L" shaped closed path. Having a gradient fill where the gradient can follow the "centerline" of those types of shapes would be very helpful.