Note
Going forward, you’ll find you need to hide panels such as the Fill color panel before
you continue. You can press the Escape key to do this.- Press the Escape key to hide the Swatches panel.
Editing strokes
A stroke is the outline (border) of artwork like shapes and paths. There are a lot of appearance
properties you can change for a stroke, including width, color, dashes, and more. In this section,
you’ll adjust the stroke of the rectangle.- With the rectangle still selected, click the Stroke color box ( ) in the Properties panel. In the
panel that appears, click the Color Mixer button ( ) at the top to create a custom color.