12 Facts About Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and design program developed and marketed by Adobe Inc Originally designed for the Apple Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began in 1985.

Adobe Illustrator was reviewed as the best vector graphics editing program in 2021 by PC Magazine.

Byte in 1989 listed Illustrator 88 as among the "Distinction" winners of the Byte Awards, stating that with it Adobe had "pulled ahead" of previously industry-dominant competitor Aldus FreeHand.

Adobe Illustrator began to support TrueType, effectively ending the "font wars" between PostScript Type 1 and TrueType.

Famously, Aldus made a matrix comparing its own FreeHand to Adobe Illustrator and Draw in which Draw's one "win" was that it came with three different clip art views of the human pancreas.

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Adobe Illustrator now owned Freehand along with the entire Macromedia product line and in 2007, Adobe Illustrator announced that it would discontinue development and updates to the Freehand program.

Adobe Illustrator CS3 included interface updates to the Control Bar, the ability to align individual points, multiple Crop Areas, the Color Guide panel and the Live Color feature among others.

In 2011 the Adobe Illustrator team developed a vector drawing app for iPad and iPhone, called Adobe Ideas.

The app had many of the features of Adobe Illustrator, yet it was a free download.

Adobe Illustrator added many more features and several bug fixes such as a new user interface, layer panels, RGB codes, and color ramp to increase performance.

In CS3, Adobe Illustrator changed the suite branding , to simple colored blocks with two-letter abbreviations, resembling a periodic table of elements.

Adobe Illustrator Draw is a free-form vector drawing app for Android and iOS users.