How To Add An Outline To A Stroke In Illustrator

As you may have known already, you can outline objects in Illustrator by applying a stroke. But what if you want to add an outline to a stroke itself? In this tutorial we'll be going over how you can do just that using the Appearance menu.

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[dhawkes]

I've been using illustrator for years and I never knew you could do this. Mind blown! Thank you

[jocelynxvlla]

omgg thank you! very simple but i wouldn't thought of that before u told me

[stephenroberts]

The appearance panel is by far my favorite tool in Illustrator. As well as Affinity Designer.

[myohan]

simple, to the point . i like it ! thanks mate

[mettleheart]

Wow!! That was so simple!! Thank you!!!

[joebine]

Ok mais c'était cool et rapide ça💯

[ahmedyaaqoub]

Thank you so much, that's very helpful,
However I tried to apply it to a path that I set as an arrow and it seems not to work perfectly!

[JohnColgan.]

Interesting shape. Was that or would that convert/expirt to a valid SVG vector? Ie. A 3 legged junction?

[BrandmagicLA]

Question.. I used to always then outline that stroke, then merge it with existing so that it is "one element". It seems that now, this feature is disabled. Am i wrong. (Used illustrator for 20 + years) When did they change this?