I cannot find any setting for this in the interface. (macOS) Choose Illustrator > Preferences > User Interface. Do one the following: (Windows) Choose Edit > Preferences > User Interface. Unfortunately for individual art board colors - Scott's 'box' method is the way to do it. Set user interface color You can customize the interface to sport one of following available color options: Dark, Medium Dark, Medium Light, and Light. Create beautiful websites, products and applications with your color, for free. This allows the white to be white over a black background - rather than 'invisible' - which is how it looks if you choose black for the art board. with open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create. You want to change the opacity, no problems, slider, or you can even do it by the numbers which I think is kind of a neat little feature. If you turn on the transparency grid - you can set both colors to black in the preferences. If I decide I would like a different colour, I want to change a single setting somewhere and have the colours of all artboards in the document change at once. You want to change the color slide across. Step 3: From the dropdown menu, select Document Setup. Using the Document Setup Step 1: Open your document first. When I press Shift+O and drag out a new artboard, I want that artboard to be the same colour. As you change the color of the rectangle, the background color of the artboard will change accordingly. I simply want it to be a different colour. I do not want my artboard to show through.

It is simulating the way ink always lets some of the paper colour show through. Set user interface color You can customize the interface to sport one of following available color options: Dark, Medium Dark, Medium Light, and Light. It seems like there should be an interface option somewhere that lets me set the colour of new artboards, but the only guidance I can find on setting the artboard colour says to use 'simulate coloured paper.' Simulating coloured paper is not setting the colour of your artboard.

The brain-dead workaround to this is to put a rectangle the colour I want on a locked background layer and make it the same size as my artboard, but this turns 'Shift+O, drag' into 'Shift+O, drag, M, drag, set desired fill colour, deselect rectangle, restore previous fill colour and tool and selection.'

No matter how I set the interface preferences, when I make a new artboard, that artboard is white.

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