: When I make a box and fill it, it remains unfilled. What should I do? I don't understand why it remains empty when I'm filling it. What mistake am I making?

@Nimeshi706

Taking a wild guess....

Turn off Simulate Colored Paper in the Document Setup.

When you turn on the Simulate Colored Paper option in Illustrator the artboard becomes that color. Because the White swatch is not an ink, it's actually the absence of all ink, you get basically no color.

Think about the simulated stock.. if it's dark burgundy, how do you expect anything to be white??? The White swatch operates like it should... placing no ink in those areas. So, you get no color, or actually the stock color.

If you actually want white to appear there's only one way.. run an actual white ink on press.
If you are actually going to print white ink, you need to use a spot color swatch and that means you need to use some other color to indicate where white would be printed.

If you need a colored artboard or to simulate colored stock it is much easier and less problematic to draw a rectangle the size of your artboard, fill it with the stock color, then lock the layer and build new layers on top of it. This will let the white swatch work again... but if you are printing on colored stock, you should never use the white swatch. You should be using the stock's color rather than white.

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@Phylliss782

Make sure you are using the rectangle tool and not the selection tool.

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