Gradient Stroke with sharp corners deforms stroke.

[249740324mhx]

Hi there! I'm currently trying to apply a gradient along a stroke, and I'm running into an issue where the stroke deforoms at some extreme angles.

Is there a way I can fix this? Thank you for your responses!

[Ton Frederiks]

Probably a GPU preview problem.

Try if Cmd E or Ctrl E to switch between GPU and CPU Preview helps.

[249740324mhx]

That did not help unfortunately. I managed to get the sharp corners to actual points by messing with some of the points, but I'm still getting some weird gradient artifacts like this:

 Any ideas?

[Ton Frederiks]

I see what you mean, looks like a limitation of a gradient across a stroke

[Kurt Gold]

You may share a sample Illustrator file with some of the damaged grads.

Perhaps there is a workaround to enhance them.

[249740324mhx · Accepted solution]

I managed to fix this issue by adjusting some of the handles to make the corners a little less extreme.

Seems like this is just a limitation of Ai, glad I found a workaround though.