Trying to color vector and it will not let me add no color to the center of the letter.

[James29230102ubmt]

You can see in the image below with the letter "A", the inside of the A is set to color of "none" and it will not change, I tried rearranging and sending to back but no luck. How do I change the color to none so it take the color of its background? 

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

What you are doing will not work.

Your counter (the inside of the A) needs to be a compound path with the outside. Somewhere along the way you've broken that.

To fix, select both the outside and inside paths and "Object > Compound Path > Make Compound"

[James29230102ubmt · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the reply! This did work somewhat. Some of the letters are closing off but others are not with the color fill.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Read up on Compound paths in Illustrator. Sometimes, even if you make the paths compound, the counter still doesn't knock out. This is due to direction each path is drawn: when such a path is drawn, like the letter "e" in my attached sample, the path starts at one point and then is drawn in one direction, either clockwise or counterclockwise and back to the starting point. For a counter to knock out, that path needs to be drawn in the opposite direction. Sometimes when a collection of letters is accidentally uncompounded, like yours, these directions can get mixed up.

Open up your Attributes panel and select one of the problematic inside paths with the Direct Select Tool and change the direction (indicated in green).

I'm curious how you got to this point anyway. Normally when a text object is made into outlines, it's already properly compounded; what did you do after that?

 

[James29230102ubmt]

Brad, this worked perfect thanks for the help. The reason I had this problem was because the text image was drawn in a different software and exported as an SVG. My guess is some of these problem occured in the process of that. I was able to reverse the direction of the path and the counters filled in as they should

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Glad it helped you!