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How to Change the Colour of Your Artboard in Illustrator

Stop adding rectangles behind your white logos. Use "Simulate Colored Paper" in Illustrator to change your artboard colour without affecting exports.

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Struggling to get your checkered brush corners to align? Here’s the exact step-by-step fix that solves it—and why Illustrator behaves this way.