Creating and deleting styles

You can create a style based on the attributes of a selected object. The style is displayed in the Styles panel.

You can also delete styles from the Styles panel.

The following attributes can be saved in a style:

• Fill type and color, including patterns, textures, and vector gradient attributes such as angle, position, and opacity
• Stroke type and color
• Filters
• Text attributes such as font, point size, style (bold, italic, or underline), alignment, anti-aliasing, auto-kerning, horizontal scale, range kerning, and leading

To create a new style:

1. Create or select a vector object or text with the stroke, fill, filter, or text attributes you want.
2. Click the New Style button at the bottom of the Styles panel.
3. Select the attributes you want to be part of the style from the New Style dialog box.

   NOTE

   To save other text attributes not listed, such as alignment, anti-aliasing, auto-kerning, horizontal scale, range kerning, and leading, select the Text Other option.

4. Name the style if you want, and click OK.

   An icon depicting the style appears in the Styles panel.

To base a new style on an existing style:

1. Apply the existing style to a selected object.
2. Edit the attributes of the object.
3. Save the attributes by creating a new style, as described in the previous procedure.

To delete a style:

1. Select a style from the Styles panel.

   Shift-click to select multiple styles; Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) to select multiple noncontiguous styles.

2. Click the Delete Style button in the Styles panel.