Filling w/ Gradient Causes Weird Gaps

[nomadsignal]

Everything looks properly connected, but when I fill it it gets all those gaps. Any ideas?

Adobe Illustrator version: 23.0.3. (Mac)

Kindly,

Nick

[Ray Yorkshire]

Maybe your graphics card  is not playing nice with the GPU performance.

to see try toggle to

View > Preview on CPU

If so, and  it keeps happening, you could try updating drivers , or reducing other tasks that are using computer resources.

[nomadsignal]

I tried to toggle the CPU & GPU just now and that didn't change the gradient issue. Thank you though for your time.

I'm running a powerful MacBook Pro (15" Retina 2015), I shouldn't have any power related issues, especially with such a simple design.

As you can see, the gradient is filling in areas outside of the N 2 S as well, and that is not part of the design.

[tromboniator]

Although it looks as if they are, your shapes are not closed paths. Select all the paths that make up one character, then press cmd/ctrl J to join them. Do the same for the other two characters.

Peter

[nomadsignal · Accepted solution]

So I got on a screen share with Adobe and solved the issue.

I used the Live Paint tool to unify the shapes.

Thanks for your time anyway!