: How to change the color of the artboard in Adobe Illustrator? It is practically impossible to edit a white illustration on the default white artboard background. Hiding the artboard makes the

@Dunderdale640

Step-1": First create your art-board and set the height width and resolution according to your requirements.

Step-2
then go to FIle > then Click Document setup



Step-3

Check the button Simulate Colored Paper



and then click on the color from the color chart ( basic color section or color table section) to choose your desired art background color



Then hit ok Then again ok

Here you go

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@Hamaas979

The easiest way to see white artwork in Illustrator is by opening the View Menu and selecting Show Transparency Grid. This gives your white artwork something to contrast with. You can adjust the color of the grid by going to File -> Document Setup.

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@Shelley591

I think the best solution to work with white artwork/artwork that doesn't contrast well is to create a separate layer and add a fill.

Then double-click the layer in the Layers Panel and uncheck the "Print" checkbox. This allows you to edit the artwork whenever you need and that layer will NEVER print.

You can place it in another document in any Adobe software and it will not show layers with print unchecked.

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@Jamie315

Just create a box the size you need in pixels the color you want in Illustrator and put it behind your logo and save that and you should get what you need.

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@Tiffany317

The short answer is no, you can't, but there is a reason for that which becomes apparent the moment you look at a CMYK "white" swatch. It's 0% everything: no ink.

White, to Illustrator, is not a color or a mixture of colors, it is an absence of ink. Even if you're working with an RGB document, that's still the way Illustrator thinks about color: white = absence.

When setting a layout to be printed with white pigment, such as for screen printing on clothing, or product labels that are printed directly onto glass or plastic, the artwork is usually submitted as black or a faux spot color with instructions to print using white. It's similar to the way that spot varnish is specified on a layout. The important thing is that it will separate on its own plate, not what color it appears to be on the screen.

That's why ilan's solution won't work for you. If you simulate colored paper, then anything white will still disappear, because that's how Illustrator shows you that the paper will show through -- there's no pigment.

Your two solutions are to put a colored rectangle on a non-printing layer beneath your artwork, or temporarily change all your white fills or strokes to something visible for editing purposes, then change it back when you're ready to save.

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@Angela777

You can "tweak" the artboard color by this way:

Select File->Document Setup...

On the popup window you will have Transparency sub-menu:



Choose the upper color (I set it to rose) and Mark "Simulate Colored Paper" -

You will get this image -



There is no any other layers except of text ones...

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@Jessie844

There's no simple way that I know of.

You can, however, create a rectangle of the same dimensions as the artboard, change its colour to one that works better, move it to the back (Command/Control+Shift+[) - or even to a lower layer and make the layer a template layer, so that it isn't included in the export.

It's not a perfect solution, I know, but it works for me.

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