Change the color and gradient of text
You can apply colors and gradients to the stroke and fill of characters and continue to edit the text.
Swatches
- A.
- Swatch affects fill or stroke
- B.
- Swatch affects container or text
- C.
- Tint percentage
- Do one of the following:
-
To apply color changes to text inside a frame, use the Type tool
to
select text. -
To apply color changes to all text in a frame, use the Selection tool
to
select the frame. When applying color to the text rather than the
container, make sure that you select the Formatting Affects Text
icon 
in
the Tools panel or in the Swatches panel.
-
- In the Tools panel or in the Swatches panel, select whether you want to apply the color change to the fill or stroke. If you select Stroke, the color change affects only the outline of characters.
- Click a color or gradient swatch in the Swatches panel.
You can also apply a gradient to text by dragging across
the selected text using either the Gradient Swatch tool 
or
the Gradient Feather tool 
, which
you can select by clicking and holding down the Gradient Swatch
tool.
To create reverse type, you can change
the text fill color to white or [Paper] and the frame’s fill color
to a dark color. You can also create reverse type by using a paragraph
rule behind text; however, if the rule is black, you’ll need to
change the type to white.