Experience performance enhancements
The app now launches faster, offering a smoother, more responsive experience and quicker access to your files and design workflows.
Last updated on
Sep 11, 2025
Explore the new and enhanced features in the latest releases of Illustrator on desktop.
August 2025 (Illustrator 29.8)
Copy color values instantly
Quickly copy Hex values from the Color panel, Color Picker, New Swatches, or Swatch Options dialog box. You can pick any color, select to copy the Hex values, use them across documents, or share them in brand assets with just one click.
Snap objects with precision
Snap to the endpoint, midpoint, or center of any object with Smart Guides for faster, more consistent alignment.
Create pixel-perfect designs with enhanced Snap to Grid
Position objects inside grid cells while still snapping to lines or intersections when needed. New dotted guides provide clear visual feedback for precise, pixel-perfect layouts.
Design sharper with enhanced Snap to Pixel
Keep artwork aligned to the pixel grid by eliminating half-pixel shifts and misleading cues. Guides now appear only between pixel-perfect objects, ensuring sharp, accurate designs for screens.
Align objects faster with the Snapping Quick Access panel
Toggle between Snap to Grid, Snap to Pixel, Snap to Point, and Smart Guides quickly from the Snapping Quick Access panel in the Control bar. Use the panel to fine-tune snapping preferences instantly, like Alignment Guides and Snap to Glyph, for smoother, more accurate alignment without breaking your flow.
Snap accurately to rotated objects
Smart Guides now detect rotation angles automatically, letting you align to endpoints, midpoints, and centers of rotated objects with precision.
Limit snapping to active artboard and isolated objects
Limit snapping to objects only within the active artboard, and snap to isolated objects directly from the Preferences panel. This prevents unwanted alignment with elements outside your working area, keeping your edits focused and accurate.
Take control of snapping with advanced settings
Customize snapping in Smart Guides with options to force snap to grid, adjust snapping tolerance, or show guides during snapping. Adapt snapping to match your exact design needs.
Release notes
Review a summary of updates and fixed issues for previous releases of Illustrator on desktop.
July 2025 (Illustrator 29.7)
Add or duplicate artboards faster
Select the buttons on any edge of an artboard to quickly expand your layout and add or duplicate a new artboard.
Rename multiple artboards to stay organized.
Stay organized by renaming multiple artboards together. This is ideal for managing screens, versions, or exports in multi-artboard files.
Spot the active artboard with ease
Illustrator now outlines the active artboard with a black border, so you always know where you are working.
Apply gradients using your existing fill
When you apply a gradient, Illustrator uses the object’s fill color as the starting point. Easily transition from solid colors to gradients for buttons, icons, and shapes without reselecting colors.
Access recent colors instantly
Illustrator now saves any recently used colors to the Color and Swatches panel, so you can quickly apply recent colors across documents without creating swatches.
Find settings faster with search in Preferences
Use the Search Preferences bar in Preferences to quickly locate any setting.
Experience a more accessible user interface
Use screen readers, keyboard shortcuts, and accessibility settings to easily navigate the toolbar, menus, and panels.
June 2025 (Illustrator 29.6)
Generate graphics to expand artwork and fill bleed areas
Use Generative Expand to expand the dimensions of your vector artwork and to add print bleed in your own style.
Experience performance enhancements
Calligraphic Brushes and Art Brushes (Window > Brushes) render effects faster. Also, operations such as move, scale, rotate, and duplication are smoother and faster.
Draw and preview in real time with the Pencil tool
Preview styles, effects, and curve fitting live as you draw—no need to release the mouse or lift the stylus.
Repeat artboard actions instantly
Repeat your last artboard action—move, duplicate, or scale— using Ctrl + D (Windows) or Command + D (macOS).
Place artwork precisely on select artboards
Use Paste in Front, Paste in Back, or Paste in Place to paste objects directly onto selected artboards.
Learn how to paste objects directly onto selected artboards.
Rearrange your selected artboards, anywhere on the canvas
You can now easily rearrange selected artboards in your document with more precision, helping you streamline your workflow.
Experience performance improvements
Experience faster and more responsive menus and Links panel, and faster effects rendering.
Learn about the recent performance enhancements.
Ideate and fill shapes with vector graphics
Use Generative Shape Fill to add detail and color to shapes and outlines in your own style, and edit them as needed.
Make patterns in unique arrangements
Use Text to Pattern to generate vector patterns and add them to your swatch library.
Create crisper scenes, subjects, and icons
Use Text to Vector Graphic to generate vector graphics in your own style, and edit them as needed.
Apply colors instantly with enhanced Hex code input
Enter simple numeric patterns for auto-completion using Hex codes; enter decimal values for auto-conversion to Hex codes; enter CSS color names for auto-conversion to Hex codes.
Add prefixes to artboard names during export
Automatically add the file name as a prefix when exporting artboards or assets with Export for Screens for easier file management.
Experience performance improvements
Enjoy faster, smoother interactions across all menus.
Find all instances of a font at once when using Retype
When you select a word, Retype highlights all the other words that have the same font. The Retype panel also includes a Show Favorite Fonts filter and an option to set the sample text size to small, medium, or large.
Learn how to to find all font instances at once when using Retype.
Experience performance improvements
Explore the enhancements to file import, effects processing, and the Layers panel.
Identify hard-to-find fonts easily
Use Retype to find the fonts used in rasterized and outlined text and eliminate the guesswork.
Take your 2D artwork to 3D with Project Neo (Beta)
Import and export SVG files directly from Illustrator to create stunning 3D artwork with access to more than 30,000 fonts from the Adobe Fonts Library.
Use enhanced presets to simplify tracing workflow
When using Image Trace, switch to the enhanced presets to take advantage of their built-in support for the latest tracing options.
Create beautiful Japanese text styles with Momochidori font
Beautify your artwork with Momochidori Japanese variable font, offering adjustable weight, width, and slant for precise and cohesive text styling.
Add vibrant gradient effects to your text with COLR fonts
Add emojis and create gradient-filled, scalable text with customizable color effects for vibrant designs with COLR fonts.
Experience East Asian text layout improvements
Get more control over your East Asian text layouts. Convert original text as outlines and view character position changes from the Reflow Viewer panel.
Experience Japanese text improvements
Enhance your Japanese text layouts with improved character positioning, precise kerning, better alignment and many more changes for beautiful Japanese text.
Use the new toolbar to get started with Illustrator
Start your design journey with the simpler, optimized Getting Started toolbar.
Preview missing fonts without installing them
Collaborators can embed fonts in shared Illustrator files, letting you open and view them seamlessly.
Measure the area of objects using the Measure tool
Use the Measure tool to measure the area of one or more selected objects on the canvas, including compound paths. You can exclude specific objects and segments of overlapping objects from your selection, giving you more control over the area measurement.
Save patterns and gradients to the Creative Cloud Library
Save patterns and gradients to the Creative Cloud Library for easier access, smoother team collaboration and simplified workflows, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
Design with precision in Illustrator
Bring your ideas to life with vector graphics tools built for creative freedom and accuracy.
