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If, like me, you like the Story Editor ( Edit | Edit Text), notice that colors can be applied from there. You need to add the stroke or shadow to a selection to activate the border color for that selection. Just remember that text has no stroke color activated when setting it first. So, there is no need to click on any button, and you can see both at a glance. What just happened?Ĭolor on text is quicker than frame colors in some ways because each has its own list. To change this, click on the Shadow button placed below, and now choose black as the stroke color.

Here you will again see the same icon we used previously.Now, you can select the text or some part of it and go to the Colors & Effects expander of the Text tab.If you need more information about these options. Don’t forget that applying a stroke color will need some border refinements in the Line tab to set the width and style of the border.Click on the paintbrush button, and apply a black color that will be applied to the border (we could call it stroke too).Then click on the color you want in the list below, for example, Magenta.Click on the second button placed above the color list to specify that you want to apply the changes to the fill. Type some text inside like “colors of the world” or use Insert | Sample Text.

Draw a Text Frame where you want it on a page.

Let’s follow some steps to see how this is done. (Move the mouse over the image to enlarge.) Time for action – applying colors to a Text Frame’s textĬolors on frames will use the same color list. In both cases you’ll find what’s needed to apply color to the fill and the border, but the user interfaces are a bit different. It’s a very different method, using duotone or any equivalent image effect.Īpplying a color to a frame means that you will use the Colors tab of the PP, whereas applying color to text will require you to go to the Color & Effects expander in the Text tab. There are five main things you could apply colors to: