Illustrator feature summary (November 2024 release)

Learn about new features and enhancements in the November 2024 release of Illustrator on desktop (version 29.1).

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Find quick tips and shortcuts in the Help Bar

The Help Bar in Illustrator provides quick tips, contextual shortcuts, and easy steps to use tools, improving workflow efficiency. It shows information contextually as you navigate through different tools and features, offering handy guidance whenever you need it.

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We're rolling out the Help Bar incrementally to everyone, and it should be available to you in a few days.

Explore enhancements inspired by your feedback

We're committed to continually improving to meet your changing needs. Based on your feedback, here are the enhancements to Illustrator in the November release.

Add vibrant gradients and patterns to swatch groups

You can now create swatch groups that contain colors, patterns, and gradients, allowing you to organize your swatches better.

Share color information with ease

Create Swatch Info lets you generate color information cards for the colors in the Swatches panel, making it easy to share details like color codes and types with collaborators.

Ungroup groups instantly with Ungroup All

You can use Ungroup All to ungroup a group and all its subgroups, including nested groups, at once.

Enhance readability and text alignments with Monospaced Full-Width Forms

Monospaced Full-Width Forms are ideal for displaying Latin characters alongside East Asian characters, keeping a uniform width and alignment within a CJK grid. This format allows for easy readability and alignment across different languages and scripts, making it perfect for bilingual typesetting and technical documentation where spatial consistency is essential.

Manage line breaks with Nonbreaking Space

Nonbreaking Space lets you keep two words together without allowing them to split into separate lines. By inserting a nonbreaking space, you can improve the readability of your text and avoid awkward breaks to names or titles.

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