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Gradients turning black - Illustrator 22.0.1

Community Beginner ,
Feb 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018

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I'm having an issue where no matter what I do my gradient keeps going from 3-colors to all black. I've removed all spot colors and am working in CMYK. Is there a solution to this?

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Community Expert , Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

It is even easier.

Select All.

Object > Path > Clean Up...

That removes the 2 stray points that seem to cause this problem.

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Community Expert , Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

https://forums.adobe.com/people/pixxxel+schubser  wrote

Ok. The problem is solved.

But there are easier ways to detect it.

Because of: Object > Path > Clean Up...         always change your path (with the given tolerance)

Object > Path > Clean Up... does not change your path.

Screen Shot 2018-02-14 at 21.41.25.png

You probably mean Object > Path > Simplify, which has a tolerance and does change it (but that's not useful in this case).

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Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

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Ok. The problem is solved.

But there are easier ways to detect it.

Because of: Object > Path > Clean Up...         always change your path (with the given tolerance)

Better possibilities

  • Looking for little crosses:

aa0.png

  • Or

select single anchor points

menu: select > object > single anchor points

aa1.png

  • This is the same selection in path view

aa1a.png

  • Or

release (a copy of your) compound path

aa2.png

  • Now you can see paths or anchor points without dimensions directly in layers palette:

aa3.png

Delete them and

Have fun

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Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/pixxxel+schubser  wrote

Ok. The problem is solved.

But there are easier ways to detect it.

Because of: Object > Path > Clean Up...         always change your path (with the given tolerance)

Object > Path > Clean Up... does not change your path.

Screen Shot 2018-02-14 at 21.41.25.png

You probably mean Object > Path > Simplify, which has a tolerance and does change it (but that's not useful in this case).

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Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ton+Frederiks  schrieb

Object > Path > Clean Up... does not change your path …

… You probably mean Object > Path > Simplify, which has a tolerance and does change it (but that's not useful in this case).

Yes, you are right.

That was a translation mistake.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

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Awesome! Thank you!

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Community Expert ,
Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

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WOW! Ton, you genius, you!

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Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

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Apr 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021

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Thanks a lot..

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Jul 08, 2021 Jul 08, 2021

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Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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Sep 01, 2022 Sep 01, 2022

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Amazing! That worked! I tried everything I could think of.

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Feb 07, 2023 Feb 07, 2023

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That worked for me, too! Thanks

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New Here ,
Oct 09, 2019 Oct 09, 2019

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I have the exact same issue with my compound paths and gradients.
I cleaned up the paths, but Illustrator stated that no clean up was necessary.
So I was still stuck with gradients going to black.
I have just found discovered if you expand the fill to a gradient mesh it seemed to fix the issue. For me at least 🙂

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New Here ,
Mar 21, 2020 Mar 21, 2020

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I had the same issue, what I did is go to "APPEARANCE" and found out the fill was below the characters in the layering. I moved it to the top and it seemed to work after that.

 

EDIT: Oh shoot sorry, just saw your screenshot and can see it's not the same issue I had.

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New Here ,
Dec 02, 2020 Dec 02, 2020

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ALTERNATE SOLUTION HERE! I had this same issue, I wanted to use a gradient on cursive text, and even after converting to outlines, the gradient fill was showing as black. I tried the Clean Up command but nothing changed.

I have since learned that overlapping contours were the issue. My cursive font had slight overlaps to give the illusion of one constant handwritten word. The fix for me was converting the font to outlines (CTRL+SHIFT+O), and then using the Shape Builder Tool to join all the contours into one. You can easily do this on one letter, and if the letter instantly takes on the gradient appearance you want then you know it's working! If you want to keep the text editable, try adjusting the spacing betwen each letter in the Character Window until they aren't overlapping.Gradient Fill Issue.PNG

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Community Expert ,
Dec 03, 2020 Dec 03, 2020

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Yours is not an alternate solution to the problemdescribed above.

In order to apply a gradient to a text you don't even need to outline it.

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