Hex colour code

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September 6, 2018
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Hi!

I am working in Illustrator CC and after selecting my object, I am in the color picker window, trying to type in a hex code to get a specific color, and when I type it in and click ok, nothing changes!! The item I'm trying to change the color of stays the exact same, as if I didn't do anything!

I used to be able to use this method to change colors in Illustrator CS6....

Help! 🙂

Rebecca

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Correct answer BeccaButtercup

No there is no such preference setting.

Did you try to reset your Preferences?

How to set preferences in Illustrator

I have discovered my silly mistake.... apparently the value box was letting me type one more letter or number than it requires (ie. instead of 6 "F's" for "white" it was inputting 7, which isn't a valid colour value so it kept reverting back to whatever existing colour I had)....

so it's working now! lol

Thanks for all the help/suggestions :-)

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Are you sure that the object really just has a fiil applied and not a pattern?

Is there just one fill in the appearance panel?

B

BeccaButtercupAuthor

Inspiring

yes, it's just a colour, not a pattern :-)

....but even something as simple as selecting my coloured object, then opening the color picker dialog box, and typing in 0000000 for black... it won't let me do it... I click ok, and nothing changes..