: Meanings of mouseover colors (outlines) in Adobe Illustrator? It appears that "blue" means a standard path, "green" means a compound path, turquoise/cyan means something else and I've no idea what
It appears that "blue" means a standard path, "green" means a compound path, turquoise/cyan means something else and I've no idea what a pink outline means.
The visual cues presented by mousing over my illustrations are helpful to see the differences, but they would be more helpful if I knew what the colors meant.
Is there a guide somewhere?
I'm talking about the sort of "wireframe" single-pixel-width outline that appears around any object as I mouse over it. The outline is different colors on different types of objects and I'd like to understand what and why. (I'm not talking about stroke color.)
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It's just as @joojaa said. You can also find some designated colors in the Edit > Preferences tab but those are just for things like Guides and Tabs.
Color of the outline does not mean object type. Color is associated with the layer, as such it is something you define. So it has no intrinsic meaning beyond what you want it to have.
You can change the colors in the layers palette by double clicking a layer (but not a object). By default new layers get the next color from the list of available colors.
Image 1: Layers Layer colors and layer settings
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