Gobe Productive User's Guide - Text Color

- Working in the graphics environment
- Drawing tools
- Pre-defined Shapes
- Pen Attributes
- Fill Color
- Text Color
- Customizing inks
- Customizing ink sets
- Transparency
- Moving items
- Resizing & Rotating items
- Aligning Items
- Reshaping, reorienting & smoothing shapes
- Arranging, grouping & locking items
- Creating Outlines
- Views & Layers
- Styles

# Text Color

Any text can be filled with a color, pattern, texture, or gradient. Text colors can liven up a newsletter, poster, or report. Text color only applies to text, therefore you must select the text you want to modify before using the text color features.

## To Format the Text Color

Use the Text Color tool on the FormatBar to format the color of the text. You can also tear-off the tool to change the format of the text. See the Tear-Off Tools topic for more information about tearing off tools.

1. Select the text you wish to format.
2. From the FormatBar, use the following buttons to format the text fill. You can also use the tear-off formatting palette if it is displayed.

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Text Color tool

Text Color tool tab bar

Text Color Tool: This tool sets the color for the selected text. Click the tool to display a tab bar. The tab bar contains the following choices:

| Color: Position the cursor over the tab, then select the color you want from the palette. The palette displays the currently active color set. To display other sets, see the Ink Sets topic for more information. The colors on the palette can be customized. See the Customizing Inks topic for more information.
| Pattern: Position the cursor over the tab, then select the pattern or texture you want from the palette. The palette displays the current set of patterns or textures. To display other sets (including the texture set), see the Ink Sets topic for more information. The patterns or textures on the palette can be customized. See the Customizing Inks topic for more information.
| Gradient: Position the cursor over the tab, then select the gradient you want from the palette. The palette displays the current set of gradients. To display other sets, see the Ink Sets topic for more information. The gradients on this palette can be customized. See the Customizing Inks topic for more information.
| Transparency: Position the cursor over the tab, then select the opacity or transparency of the fill. 100% represents full opacity, 0% denotes total transparency. A transparent fill makes whatever items are behind the item show through. An opaque fill is whatever color, gradient, or pattern you chose. See the Transparency topic for more information.

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