: How can I make this kind of underline in Adobe illustrator? Today I found this underline on the internet and I am wondering if anyone of you can tell me how to recreate it in Adobe illustrator

@Berumen635

There are multiple ways to create that effect.

A wide, short rectangle, say like 300 px wide and 8 px toll, filled with a gradient.

Make your gradient linear, 90 degrees vertical with 3 colors: white, grey in the middle then white on the other side. Give them equal width on the gradient slider.

Make both end white colors 0 transparency.

It should be getting close in look.

Adjust the darkness of the middle grey. Adjust the gradient slider. Make the whole rectangle transparency mode Multiple, 80% transparency, play with these settings until it looks like the example.

Also this gradient applied to a single stroke with no fill, like 3 inches wide, with the tapering at both ends stroke setting might help achieve the look.

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