diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index f404f12a..0a638640 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Ranked; detail in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md) and [docs/gaps.md](docs/gap
 
 | Date | What landed |
 |---|---|
-| 2026-10-11 | Effect › Brush Strokes: Accented Edges, Angled Strokes, Crosshatch, Dark Strokes, Ink Outlines, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, Sumi-e (G2). Command parameters from agents and files checked before anything changes (paint, place, cuts, dashes, crop, asset ids, anchors, paths, distort; #984–#999); command dialogs keep whole numbers whole, so Create Object Mosaic takes the tiles typed (#1000); stepper arrows take Shift (×10) and Ctrl/Cmd (÷10) like the arrow keys (#991). Exports and Rasterize supersample Art Optimized edges, so shapes meeting edge to edge leave no seam (#983). Character and paragraph styles take leading, kerning, mojikumi and the other attributes left out at their defaults (#1001). Drawing, typing and pasting with no layer shown and unlocked is refused instead of adding art to a hidden or locked layer (#1002). MCP `add_text` gives type on or in a path the colour asked for (#1003). MCP `screenshot` of a connected app renders the artboard asked for (#1004). `vectorcraft-cli run` ends quietly when its reader closes early (#1005). Select › All on Active Artboard selects on the artboard made active, not always the first (#1006). Reverse Gradient keeps off-centre midpoints, mirrored (#1007). A polar grid with no radial dividers draws none (#1008). Use Precise Cursors also covers the Pen's join pointer (#1009). SVGs with one absolute and one unitless root side import at their size, unstretched (#1010). DXF US survey inches, yards and miles open at their size and name (#1011). A file placed into a document with no other links follows its first change even while the app sits idle (#1031). PDF import keeps the style a font name says when the file doesn't embed the font (#1023). Shift selects ruler guides and art together, and Delete removes both (#1022). Open filled paths are hit by their fill on every side, the rotate cursor bows around the corner it is at, the flip icons match their flips, the Color Picker previews on the selection, and Properties › Transform reaches Scale Corners and Scale Strokes & Effects (#1036). Offset Path and the other booleans finish on outlines where the sweep used to loop until memory ran out (linesweeper 0.5, #1028). Floating panel groups stack into sets that move together, collapse to their tabs and dock as extra dock columns that scroll (#1020). Ruler guides live on layers: listed in the Layers panel, shown, hidden, locked, duplicated, merged and deleted with their layer, and moved between layers (#1021). A `.ai` whose editing data uses global process colours (`Xk`/`XK`) or pattern fills keeps its sublayers: the colours come in as global swatches at their tint, the patterns as pattern swatches (#1025). A `.ai` in PostScript form opens through its layers, read from the program itself, also when it names the prolog defining its operators without including it, as Rhino and other CAD apps write it (#1027). |
+| 2026-10-11 | Effect › Brush Strokes: Accented Edges, Angled Strokes, Crosshatch, Dark Strokes, Ink Outlines, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, Sumi-e (G2). Command parameters from agents and files checked before anything changes (paint, place, cuts, dashes, crop, asset ids, anchors, paths, distort; #984–#999); command dialogs keep whole numbers whole, so Create Object Mosaic takes the tiles typed (#1000); stepper arrows take Shift (×10) and Ctrl/Cmd (÷10) like the arrow keys (#991). Exports and Rasterize supersample Art Optimized edges, so shapes meeting edge to edge leave no seam (#983). Character and paragraph styles take leading, kerning, mojikumi and the other attributes left out at their defaults (#1001). Drawing, typing and pasting with no layer shown and unlocked is refused instead of adding art to a hidden or locked layer (#1002). MCP `add_text` gives type on or in a path the colour asked for (#1003). MCP `screenshot` of a connected app renders the artboard asked for (#1004). `vectorcraft-cli run` ends quietly when its reader closes early (#1005). Select › All on Active Artboard selects on the artboard made active, not always the first (#1006). Reverse Gradient keeps off-centre midpoints, mirrored (#1007). A polar grid with no radial dividers draws none (#1008). Use Precise Cursors also covers the Pen's join pointer (#1009). SVGs with one absolute and one unitless root side import at their size, unstretched (#1010). DXF US survey inches, yards and miles open at their size and name (#1011). A file placed into a document with no other links follows its first change even while the app sits idle (#1031). PDF import keeps the style a font name says when the file doesn't embed the font (#1023). Shift selects ruler guides and art together, and Delete removes both (#1022). Open filled paths are hit by their fill on every side, the rotate cursor bows around the corner it is at, the flip icons match their flips, the Color Picker previews on the selection, and Properties › Transform reaches Scale Corners and Scale Strokes & Effects (#1036). Offset Path and the other booleans finish on outlines where the sweep used to loop until memory ran out (linesweeper 0.5, #1028). Floating panel groups stack into sets that move together, collapse to their tabs and dock as extra dock columns that scroll (#1020). Ruler guides live on layers: listed in the Layers panel, shown, hidden, locked, duplicated, merged and deleted with their layer, and moved between layers (#1021). A `.ai` whose editing data uses global process colours (`Xk`/`XK`) or pattern fills keeps its sublayers: the colours come in as global swatches at their tint, the patterns as pattern swatches (#1025). A `.ai` in PostScript form opens through its layers, read from the program itself, also when it names the prolog defining its operators without including it, as Rhino and other CAD apps write it (#1027). A fill or stroke chosen while the Type tool has characters selected colours just those characters (#1063). |
 | 2026-10-10 | Initial live Revolve (Effect › 3D and Materials, #846, #605), in its own `three-d` crate. Progress docs re-measured and restructured to the craftrules standard (this page, `docs/target-app-parity.md`, `gaps.md`, `ui-parity.md`, the format, hardware, localization, effects and type checklists). Same day: v0.8.0; Effect › Distort, Pixelate and Texture filters (13); German interface; Variables (data merge); Graph Type value axes and tick marks; restart when the first frame never reaches the screen (#964) |
 | 2026-10-09 | Radial Blur, Smart Blur, Unsharp Mask (gap 2 begins); 340 commits, the busiest day |
 | 2026-10-08 | v0.5.0–v0.7.0; community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, Layers, Artboards, Japanese composition, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages, saved selections |
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/paint.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/paint.rs
index 08f0cb8d..23611224 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/paint.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/paint.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Fill",
             [],
             None,
-            "{color?: \"#rrggbb\"|[r,g,b]|{c,m,y,k}|{gray}|{l,a,b} (CIE Lab), none?: true, swatch?: name (a global or spot colour stays linked, so swatch edits recolour it; a tint swatch links to its base at its tint; a gradient swatch is recorded as the gradient's swatch and fits each object, keeping its aspect; the built-in \"[Registration]\" prints on every plate), tint?: 0..100 (% of a global or spot `swatch`; default 100, or a tint swatch's own), gradient?: {kind?: linear|radial|freeform, stops?: [{offset 0..1, color, opacity? 0..1 (or 0..100), midpoint? 0.13..0.87, swatch?: global or spot colour (or tint) swatch the stop links to (its colour comes from the swatch), tint?: 0..100}] (at least 2; default white→black), angle?: deg, start?: [x,y], end?: [x,y] (the vector in document coordinates, both or neither; type objects keep it in text space), aspect?: % (radial; without start/end the gradient is placed on each object's bounds), focal?: [x,y] (radial, with start/end: the focal point, where the first stop sits), swatch?: linked gradient swatch name}, item?: appearance item index|null (omitted: the Appearance panel's active item if it is a fill, else the top fill), ids?, focus?: true (false keeps the active proxy), keepModel?: false (in a CMYK document, RGB colours and gradient stops are stored as CMYK unless true; Gray stays Gray)} sets the selection's fill and the default (new art fits a gradient to itself)",
+            "{color?: \"#rrggbb\"|[r,g,b]|{c,m,y,k}|{gray}|{l,a,b} (CIE Lab), none?: true, swatch?: name (a global or spot colour stays linked, so swatch edits recolour it; a tint swatch links to its base at its tint; a gradient swatch is recorded as the gradient's swatch and fits each object, keeping its aspect; the built-in \"[Registration]\" prints on every plate), tint?: 0..100 (% of a global or spot `swatch`; default 100, or a tint swatch's own), gradient?: {kind?: linear|radial|freeform, stops?: [{offset 0..1, color, opacity? 0..1 (or 0..100), midpoint? 0.13..0.87, swatch?: global or spot colour (or tint) swatch the stop links to (its colour comes from the swatch), tint?: 0..100}] (at least 2; default white→black), angle?: deg, start?: [x,y], end?: [x,y] (the vector in document coordinates, both or neither; type objects keep it in text space), aspect?: % (radial; without start/end the gradient is placed on each object's bounds), focal?: [x,y] (radial, with start/end: the focal point, where the first stop sits), swatch?: linked gradient swatch name}, item?: appearance item index|null (omitted: the Appearance panel's active item if it is a fill, else the top fill), ids?, focus?: true (false keeps the active proxy), keepModel?: false (in a CMYK document, RGB colours and gradient stops are stored as CMYK unless true; Gray stays Gray)} sets the selection's fill and the default (new art fits a gradient to itself); while the Type tool has characters selected (and no ids or item are given), the paint goes to those characters only",
             has_doc,
             |s, p| set_paint(s, p, true)
         ),
@@ -375,6 +375,34 @@ fn apply_to_proxy(s: &mut Session, p: &Value, paint: Paint) -> Result<Value> {
 /// remember the paint.
 fn apply_paint(s: &mut Session, p: &Value, paint: Paint, fill: bool) -> Result<Value> {
     let cmd = if fill { "paint.setFill" } else { "paint.setStroke" };
+    // Characters selected with the Type tool take the paint, not the whole type object (#1063).
+    if p.get("ids").is_none()
+        && p.get("item").is_none()
+        && let Some((id, a, b)) = super::textedit::editing_range(s)?
+        && a != b
+    {
+        s.edit(if fill { "Fill Color" } else { "Stroke Color" }, |d, _| {
+            let Some(NodeKind::Text(t)) = d.node_mut(id).map(|n| &mut n.kind) else { return Err(EngineError::NoNode(id)) };
+            let (xf, lb) = (t.xf, t.local_bounds());
+            vectorcraft_text::edit::style_range(&mut t.runs, a, b, |st| {
+                if fill {
+                    st.fill = place_run_paint(&paint, p, xf, lb);
+                } else {
+                    if !paint.is_none() {
+                        run_stroke_weight(st);
+                    }
+                    st.stroke = place_run_paint(&paint, p, xf, vectorcraft_doc::appearance::stroke_paint_bounds(lb, st.stroke_width));
+                }
+            });
+            super::typecmd::refresh_bounds(t);
+            Ok(())
+        })?;
+        if bool_or(p, "focus", true) {
+            s.fill_active = fill;
+        }
+        s.remember_paint(&paint);
+        return ok();
+    }
     // Resolve the requested targets before mutating defaults or the active proxy.
     let item = item_target(s, p, cmd)?.of_kind(s, fill);
     let selected = item.targets(s, p)?;
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/textedit.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/textedit.rs
index 7c0b41c7..7a871754 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/textedit.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/textedit.rs
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ enum Step {
 }
 
 /// The Type tool's selected text while it edits (its typing session ends first: one undo step).
-fn editing_range(s: &mut Session) -> Result<Option<(NodeId, usize, usize)>> {
+pub(crate) fn editing_range(s: &mut Session) -> Result<Option<(NodeId, usize, usize)>> {
     let o = s.tool_options();
     let Some(id) = o.get("editing").and_then(Value::as_u64).map(NodeId) else { return Ok(None) };
     if super::edit::typing_in_progress(s) {
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests_textedit.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests_textedit.rs
index 4de6cdbc..cbaa5443 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests_textedit.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests_textedit.rs
@@ -563,3 +563,35 @@ fn automatic_alignment_updates_during_edits_and_can_be_overridden() {
     legacy["para"]["justify"] = json!("Left");
     assert_eq!(serde_json::from_value::<TextObject>(legacy).unwrap().para.justify, vectorcraft_doc::Justify::Left);
 }
+
+/// #1063: a fill (or stroke) chosen while the Type tool has characters selected colours just
+/// those characters, as one undo step; the rest of the type keeps its colour.
+#[test]
+fn a_fill_chosen_with_characters_selected_colours_only_them() {
+    let mut s = session();
+    let v = ViewInfo::default();
+    s.select_tool("type", v).unwrap();
+    click(&mut s, 50.0, 300.0);
+    let id = s.doc().unwrap().selection.objects[0];
+    s.tool_text("Sample Text", v).unwrap();
+    let before = obj(&s, id).runs[0].style.fill.clone();
+    s.set_tool_option("select", &json!({"start": 0, "end": 6}));
+    s.execute("paint.setFill", &json!({"color": "#00a000"})).unwrap();
+    let t = obj(&s, id);
+    assert_eq!(t.runs.len(), 2);
+    assert_eq!(t.runs[0].text, "Sample");
+    assert_eq!(t.runs[0].style.fill, Paint::solid(vectorcraft_color::Color::rgb8(0, 160, 0)));
+    assert_eq!(t.runs[1].text, " Text");
+    assert_eq!(t.runs[1].style.fill, before);
+    // A stroke goes on the selected characters only, with a weight to show.
+    s.execute("paint.setStroke", &json!({"color": "#ff0000"})).unwrap();
+    let t = obj(&s, id);
+    assert!(t.runs[0].style.stroke_width > 0.0 && !t.runs[0].style.stroke.is_none());
+    assert!(t.runs[1].style.stroke.is_none());
+    // One undo step each.
+    let labels = undo_labels(&s);
+    assert_eq!(&labels[labels.len() - 2..], ["Fill Color", "Stroke Color"]);
+    s.execute("edit.undo", &json!({})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("edit.undo", &json!({})).unwrap();
+    assert!(obj(&s, id).runs.iter().all(|r| r.style.fill == before));
+}