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dDembicki
Inspiring
April 25, 2024
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Line and fill same color but look different?

  • April 25, 2024
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Why does the line and fill look different here? Both the line and the fill are the same color. The line is one of the standards in the Artistic Chalk & Charcoal palette. (see screenshots attached)

 

AI 28.4.1, Mac OS 14.4.1.

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    Correct answer Monika Gause

    Check the brush.

    Drag it out of the brushes panel. and then check the black color. Most probably it's not really black. If it's an RGB file, the black must be RGB 000

    Then correct that and drag it back into the panel again.

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    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 25, 2024

    There are brushes like the Artistic_ChalkCharcoalPencil set that have their color as 100% K (CMYK Black) defined.

    They expand to the RGB version of a CMYK Black (29/29/29 or 88,3% K).

    If these brushes were made with 100% Grayscale instead of RGB or CMYK values they woud work in both RGB and CMYK documents.

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    dDembickiAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 20, 2024

    Interesting tidbit, Ton, thanks.

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    April 25, 2024

    Check the brush.

    Drag it out of the brushes panel. and then check the black color. Most probably it's not really black. If it's an RGB file, the black must be RGB 000

    Then correct that and drag it back into the panel again.

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    dDembickiAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 25, 2024

    Good suggestion, thanks. It wasn't pure black. I noodled around and changed the coloring with the colorizations options, now I just have to figure out what I did! I changed the options, and then un-did everything, and the color changed to what it should be. Magic, I guess. 

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 25, 2024

    Glad you could solve it.

    Brushes are usually at least 2 objects: the brush path itself and an invisible rectangle. Maybe that threw you off.

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