<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 23.08.2010, at 23:07, Erik Blankinship wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I would like to use stroke_color as the basis for a gradient.  For example: if stroke_color was #FF0000, I might want to generate #E60000 and #FF1A1A (darker and lighter, respectively)<font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, arial, helvetica">.  Maybe you can refer to me an activity icon which does this?</font></div> </div> </blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Can't do that. But you can use the stroke_color itself as one stop on the gradient, so you could e.g. fade from stroke_color to white. </div><div><br></div><div>To lighten or darken, just use a plain stroke/fill color, and layer a translucent white or black shape on top of it. </div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div> <br></body></html>