white background is glaring!

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November 27, 2021
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Hi! I'm relatively new to Illustrator. I'm not sure what I did - I hit a "wrong key" and my workspace (not the tools and panels) turned white! Originally I had a medium gray with a rectangle defining my artboard. That rectangle is now gone, and the background is annoyingly glaring. How do I get back to the gray and the artboard rectangle? I'm using the Illustrator program on a iMAC desktop computer. Thanks so much - Marilyn

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Correct answer Eugenio.NYC

Hi

comand + shift = H

Laura Coyle.

Community Expert

To add a little background to the other answers, the setting in Preferences is under User Interface > Canvas Color: Match User Interface Brightness. So this is your default setting that normally shows a gray canvas with a white artboard. When you hide the artboard (using the tips already provided), the canvas turns white temporarily, and the artboard boundary is hidden.