: Customize strikethrough in Illustrator? When you apply strikethrough or underline to text in Illustrator you can't define the color or weight of that line. Is there an easy way to do this? Maybe

@Caterina889

Add a new fill via the Appearance Panel
Set the Fill color to the color you want your strikethrough/underline
Highlight this new fill in the Appearance Panel
Choose Effect > Convert To Shape > Rectangle from the menu
Tick the Absolute option and enter the height and width you want the rule/line





Add Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform to move the rule/line to some other position on the text




Remember, when you're done doing this once, you can drag the text to the Graphic Styles panel. That way, in the future, you simply need to click the style to apply your custom strikethrough/underline.

(How it was done before Adobe added the underline/strikethrough options to Illustrator.)

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