Styles

A style is a named look that objects follow. Change the style, and every object that follows it changes too, on every texture of the project. There are two kinds:

Graphic styles: a fill, a stroke (or none), an opacity and a drop shadow (or none). Use them for stripes, bands and panels.
Text styles: the whole lettering: font, weight, italic, size, alignment, letter spacing and line height, plus the fill, stroke, opacity and shadow. Use them for company names, phone numbers and slogans.

A style’s colors can be linked to palette swatches: editing the swatch updates the style, and every object that follows it.

Create a style

Select one object that has the look you want: a shape or a text for a graphic style, a text for a text style.
In the Resources tab, under Styles, click + next to Graphic styles or Text styles. In the Brand space, the same button reads New Style from Selection.

The new style is named “Style 1” or “Text style 1”, and the selected object follows it right away. Right-click it and choose Rename to give it a better name.

Apply a style

Select one or more shapes or texts, then click the style in the Styles section of the Resources tab. Each object takes the style’s look and follows it.

You can also choose a style in the Style row of the inspector. That row names the style the selection follows, or reads None.

A few rules:

Applying a style to a group applies it to each shape and text inside; the group itself follows nothing.
A text style only applies to texts. A text follows either a graphic style or a text style, never both.
With a gradient, the style gives the gradient’s colors and kind, but each object keeps its own gradient position.

When an object stops following its style

An object follows its style as long as its look is the style’s. It stops following it when you change its own fill, stroke, opacity or shadow, or a text’s font settings, or when you give it another swatch, another style or the eyedropper’s color. The Style row then reads None, and later edits of the style no longer reach it.

Moving, resizing, rotating, flipping, duplicating, grouping or copying an object keeps the link, and so does moving it to another texture.

Change a style for the whole fleet

Each style’s context menu offers two ways to change it everywhere:

Edit Style… (graphic styles only) opens the before/after editor, as for a swatch: set the fill, stroke and opacity, check the impact and the thumbnails of the textures concerned, then click Apply to Fleet. Nothing changes before that.
Redefine from Selection gives the style the look of the selected object. This is how you change a text style: select a text that follows it, change its font or size, then choose Redefine from Selection on the style. Every text that follows it changes, on every texture.

Each change is one undo step, which restores the previous look everywhere.

In the Brand space, each style also shows its usage, such as “5 textures · 5 objects”, or Unused.

Other style actions

Select Users on This Texture selects the objects of the active texture that follow the style.
Delete Style removes the style. The objects keep their look and simply stop following it.

To use your styles in other projects, add them to your library.