Practice Illustrator keyboard shortcuts

Drill all 92 until you don't have to think about them.

tool letters and stacked modifiers, the vector way

Covers Adobe Illustrator desktop (2024/2025) default keyboard set on macOS and Windows; it deliberately excludes generic OS chords (new, open, save, copy, paste, undo, redo, print) to focus on Illustrator's own grammar, and about fifteen medium-confidence entries should be spot-checked in your target version before publishing.

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The progression

Every deck is graded 1 to 6: level 1 is the reflex core, the top level is where the specialists live. One move from each, so you can see how far it goes.

1. Level 16 moves

   Pick, move, and select whole objects

   V

   The tool you return to between every other tool; the deck's home key.

   …and 5 more at this level

2. Level 216 moves

   Pan around the canvas

   H

   Panning without this means scroll bars, which no one wants.

   …and 15 more at this level

3. Level 325 moves

   Paint a brush stroke along a path

   B

   Puts a loaded brush on the path without a trip to the toolbar.

   …and 24 more at this level

4. Level 418 moves

   Select objects sharing an attribute by clicking one (Magic Wand)

   Y

   Selects by shared fill or stroke, so one click grabs the whole set.

   …and 17 more at this level

5. Level 519 moves

   Bend a path smoothly by dragging without setting bezier handles

   Shift+`

   Curves without handle-wrangling, for when the Pen feels like overkill.

   …and 18 more at this level

6. Level 68 moves

   Add a gradient mesh to shade an object organically

   U

   The only way to paint smooth gradients across a warped surface.

   …and 7 more at this level