# Filling an Element with a Halftone

Halftones are popular in comics; they add a dynamic and attractive sense of style. You can fill any element or page with a colorful halftone and have great control over how the dots appear.

You use the Graphic inspector to fill an element with a halftone.

To fill an element with a halftone:
- Select the element.
- Click on Inspector in the toolbar, and then click the Graphic button.
- Choose Halftone from the Fill pop-up menu.
- Click the halftone well below the Fill pop-up menu to reveal the halftone gradient tool. The gradient guides the layout of the halftone dots. Where the gradient is brighter the dots will be larger. Where the gradient is darker the dots will be smaller. You can switch between linear and radial gradients for different halftone effects.

  To learn more about using the Gradients window, see The Gradients Window.

- Click the foreground color well to choose a color or gradient with which to fill the halftone dots.
- Click the background color well to choose a color or gradient for the background.
- Change the dot size to adjust the median dot size.