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- In Illustrator, there are two ways

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to color a line or shape.

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There's the fill, which is
the color inside the shape,

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and then there's the topic
of this chapter, stroke,

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which is the color that paints a line

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or surrounds a shape.

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Now don't get me wrong, fill is great.

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Many of us spent our formative years

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filling in someone else's
outlines in coloring books.

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But stroke, stroke is so much more.

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It involves color of course,
but also line weight,

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cap, join, arrowheads, dashes, dots,

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and variable width.

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Plus you can assign more than one stroke

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to any given path outline.

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In Illustrator, strokes are so flexible

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they amount to strokes of genius.

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Stick with me and I'll show you why.