: How to apply different colours to each letter in a word in Adobe Illustrator I am looking for a method to fill multiple colours to different letters in a word without removing the outline

@Kevin459

As Random O'Reilly mentioned in their answer but didn't explain, you can highlight each letter while in 'type mode(?)' and choose the fill for each one separately without needing to expand it or use any destructive method.

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@Jessie844

Edit: I might have misunderstood you: to apply different colours separately, I am not sure if there are any other way than selecting each and applying colour individually.



Select your text box, set both outline and fill to blank:



in the appearance panel, select add fill



Find a gradient you want to use, or create your own, and select that:



Oh, I forgot. Then select the gradient tool, and use that to "pull" the gradient to apply across the letters:

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