😎 CTRL/CMD+8 is your friend

😎 Have you ever used the eyedropper tool to sample a gradient, and your gradient gets applied to every little item individually? All you want is for your gradient to apply to the whole design!
Turns out it’s pretty easy.
CTRL/CMD+8 is your friend here. Or go to Object - Compound Path - Make.
This ‘unifies’ your design so the gradient applies itself to the whole thing.
N.B. Make sure you make a duplicate of your design before you make it a compound path. Because when you release it (Object - Compound Path - Release) it’ll fill every little ‘hole’ or enclosed space in your design, which you’ll then need to cut away again. So be careful when you use it on outlined text, otherwise it’ll fill the ‘counters’ of letters like ‘O’, ‘R’, ‘A’, etc. 👍
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[@carstenscheunemann8633]

Uhm. Why not just select everything, take the gradient tool and pull the gradient with your mouse?

[@py.s_]

Too complicated and it combined the whole design. First, select the whole object, then you can just eyedrop the gradient color then select the whole object (if it’s not selected), press G (as a shortcut for gradient tools), then drag the color gradient bar any direction you want, you can set it as one direction