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- In this movie I'll
show you how to combine

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multiple stokes on a single path outline,

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in order to achieve increasingly
interesting effects.

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So for example, let's say we want to take

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our dotted border that we created

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a couple of movies ago,

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and we want to turn it
into this pattern here.

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Where we have dots in the center

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that appear to be braided together.

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Well that's a function of three strokes

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assigned to a single path outline.

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And here's how it works,

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I'll go ahead and click on the rectangle

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in order to select it,

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and then I'll go up to the window menu

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and choose the appearance command

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in order to bring up the Appearance Panel

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which I positioned in the lower
right corner of my screen.

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Now notice that we're seeing
our stroke and fill attributes

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listed inside this panel.

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And we see their stacking order as well,

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so in other words the stroke is stacked

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on top of the fill.

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Not that it currently matters

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because the fill is set to none.

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Now to add another stroke,

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go ahead and drop down

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to the lower left corner of the panel

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and click on the Add
New Stroke icon like so.

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And that's going to result in
a little bit of a mess here.

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And that's because for whatever reason,

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Illustrator has decided to select

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a preserve option right there.

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What we want of course
is to align those dots

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to the corners.

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So I'll go ahead and
click on the second icon,

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and that solves that problem.

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And now I'm going to change the color

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of this stroke to white.

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By clicking on this
little color swatch here

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inside the Appearance Panel,

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which once again brings up my swatches.

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And I'll select white instead.

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Alright now what we have
is a 20 point stroke

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directly on top of a 20 point stroke.

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So the white one is
covering the orange one.

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To make the orange one visible,

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go ahead and click on it.

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So click on that second stroke there

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inside the Appearance Panel.

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And change it's line weight right there

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form 20 to 40 points,

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in order to produce this effect here.

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Now because the rear
stroke is 20 points thicker

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than the forward stroke,

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we're seeing what appears
to be 10 points of stroke

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drawn around each white circle.

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And that's because the 20 extra points are

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evenly distributed on either
side of those white dots.

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Alright now with this
bottom stroke selected,

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I'm going to make a duplicate of it

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by clicking on this little page icon

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at the bottom of the Appearance Panel.

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And that'll create an exact
duplicate of that stroke

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and that way the aligns icon stays on.

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And now I'm going to drag it and drop it

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on top of the white stroke like so.

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Now because it's so darn thick
it's covering everything up

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which is why I'm going to
take it down to 10 points

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in order to produce
this effect right here.

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And then I'll click off the
rectangle to deselect it.

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Now there's nothing that
says that all of your strokes

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have you match each other.

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For example, you can mix
plain strokes with dash ones.

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And so I'm going to go
ahead and switch to the last

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document I was working on
with the custom letters.

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And I'll go ahead and press
control 0 or command 0

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on the Mac to center my view.

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And this time I'm just going
to go up to the view menu

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choose Guides, and choose Clear
Guides to get rid of them.

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And now I'll go up to the
select menu and choose Letters

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in order to select all
of those letters like so.

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Alright now here inside
the Appearance Panel,

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I'll once again click on
the add new stroke icon

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in the bottom right corner of the panel.

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And this time I'm going
to click on a stroke color

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right there and I'm going to change it

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to this kind of lilac
color inside this folder.

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Which for some reason is
designated as a CMYK color.

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But it's C26 M41 Y0 K0,

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and we end up with this
very muted color here.

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And now I'll take it's line
weight down to 10 points

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let's say in order to produce this stroke

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inside of a stroke.

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Now to turn this stroke
into a dashed outline

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I could either click on the word Stroke

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in order to bring up the
Stroke Panel like so,

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or I could just work inside
the dedicated stroke panel.

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And so I'll go ahead and turn on

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the dashed line check box.

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And I'll make sure the dash value is 0,

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which is giving us circular
dots because after all,

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we selected round cap.

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And then I'm going to take this
gap value down to 10 points

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so that it exactly matches the line weight

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and every single one
of these dots touches.

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After which point, I'll just
go ahead and click off the text

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in order to deselect it.

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And so that's how you
combine multiple strokes

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on a single path outline,

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really as many strokes as you like.

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In the next movie we'll
bump things up a notch

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and I'll show you how
to offset the strokes

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in order to produce the effect of depth.