: How to give transparent border around an object in illustrator? Hi I want to create a icon like this: So the Middle person has kind of transparent border around itself. So the other get cut

@Michele215

You can create a knockout stroke by using transparency to shape a knockout group.


Put all three people together in a single layer
On the top-most person, add a stroke with thickness of your liking
From the Transparency pane, click Knockout Group twice and Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape once so that both have a checkmark
Set the opacity of your stroked person to 0%


Here's a demonstration:

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