: I am trying to change the colour of my text with lines inside but cant I typed the text, created outlines, edited the text, then expanded it. I then made the lines using the Blend Tool and

@Berumen635

Illustrator frequently converts objects to grayscale. I'm not sure why, I don't argue.

Whenever I find something stuck in black and white mode I select it, open the color dialogue, click the drop down arrows in upper right and put it back to CMYK or RGB mode. The object will now show the last color effect you made or will allow you to change colors.

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@Moriarity648

Go into the layers panel, and expand the Clip Group until you find the blend, and expand the blend to find the two lines that form it ...

Click on the Target icon to select the line, and change the colour of the stroke. You can change the colour of each stroke independently, and end up with a kind of gradient.

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@Gail6891361

I presume that the artwork you're trying to make uses a clip group with no color cutting out pieces of a shape that contains color.

Solution: Open up the layer group in your layers panel (bottom-right) and find the shape that has color in it. Select by clicking on the circle on it's right and then change the fill color on the top-left.

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