- In Illustrator, there are two ways
to color a line or shape.
There's the fill, which is the color inside the shape,
and then there's the topic of this chapter, stroke,
which is the color that paints a line
or surrounds a shape.
Now don't get me wrong, fill is great.
Many of us spent our formative years
filling in someone else's outlines in coloring books.
But stroke, stroke is so much more.
It involves color of course, but also line weight,
cap, join, arrowheads, dashes, dots,
and variable width.
Plus you can assign more than one stroke
to any given path outline.
In Illustrator, strokes are so flexible
they amount to strokes of genius.
Stick with me and I'll show you why.