# Filling text colour in shades - pls help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filling-text-colour-in-shades-pls-help/51830>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 17, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filling-text-colour-in-shades-pls-help/51830 "2004-05-17T18:17:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![kilo\_4que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@kilo\_4que](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kilo_4que)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filling-text-colour-in-shades-pls-help/51830/1 "2004-05-17T18:17:00Z")

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Hi people, im new to the forum and this is my first thread. Im having some difficulty in working out how to add a shade of colour to text in Flash MX. Say for example i want the text to be of a colour that goes from blue to red in a linear fashion. How do i come about doing this. I have tried all day but cant work it out.

Cheers