How to Change the Fill and Outline Color in AI CS6

While some folks are perfectly happy with Adobe Illustrator's "factory" default settings, a custom default fill and stroke can help to increase your productivity (and ease your creative flow). The default fill/outline in Adobe Illustrator is a white fill with a black stroke. To change the default fill and outline swatches:

1. Change the stroke and fill to the desired colors. (In this example, we will use a one hundred percent cyan fill with no stroke.)
2. Next, open the Graphic Styles palette and click the New Graphic Style icon to create a new style from the current stroke and fill.
3. Hold the Option key and drag the new graphic style swatch over the first swatch in the Graphic Styles palette.

Now, when you hit the D key, the default colors will be the newly selected colors.