Graphic styles

A graphic style is a collection of appearance attributes that you can apply all at once to objects. For example, let’s say you format an object with a fill color, a stroke weight and color, an opacity setting, and an effect; you can save those settings as a graphic style that can be applied later to other objects.

You can apply graphic styles to objects, groups, or layers. If you target a layer and apply a graphic style, all objects on that layer take on the appearance of the graphic style. If you move an object out of that layer to another layer, the object no longer shows the effects of the layer’s graphic style.

The Graphic Styles panel

To open the Graphic Styles panel, choose Window > Graphic Styles. When you first open the panel, there are just a few graphic style thumbnails in the panel. You can add others from graphic styles libraries, or create your own custom styles.