# Create a Gradient that spans across shapes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/create-a-gradient-that-spans-across-shapes/180617>\
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**Created:** [March 1, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/create-a-gradient-that-spans-across-shapes/180617 "2006-03-01T23:55:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![funfunfun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funfunfun](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/funfunfun)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/create-a-gradient-that-spans-across-shapes/180617/1 "2006-03-01T23:55:42Z")

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I have done this before, but cannot repeat.

If you take the word “Calendar” and break it apart twice so it’s reduced to shapes, how can you apply a gradient that spans across those shapes?

It worked before, but recently it applies the gradient to the individual letters (shapes).