Layers window, meaning of the circle on the right?

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February 17, 2022
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In the layers window, sometimes the circle on the right is coloured in and sometimes not, what does this mean? And how do I change it so it is not coloured in as in the layer below.

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Met1

Legend

I find it useful, and, as usual, Adobe have it covered:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/layers.html

Mylenium

Legend

That is supposed to indicate different content types and how they interact with underlying layers. Blending modes, compound paths, knockout groups and such. Not really useful and most people barely take note of that.

Mylenium

pietera17573163Author

Participant

Thank you @Mylenium Reason I am asking is because I do all my artwork in illustratior, and whenever that circle is coloured in my printing software does not recocnise my cutting contour anymore. At least I have an idea of what it means now.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

It means there are appearance attributes applied to the layer. I would disagree with Mylenium that it is "not really useful"; it's very useful and important to check.

Click on it, then open the Appearance panel to see what's affecting the layer.

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