Gradient fills now drop to greyscale with B/W only setting?

[Ryan McCuaig]

Hi all--

Apologies, this is me coming up for air from the stone ages:

When did colour gradients start actually converting to a greyscale when the b/w only setting is applied (either as a doc setting or a viewport setting)? 2013?

My former firm had been using gradient fills from/to the same colour to get flat colour fills in presentation elevations. The effect was that you could turn on b/w for the viewport and have all linework drop to black, but the fills stay coloured.

As of 2013 this doesn't work anymore. Does anyone have any preferred replacement techniques? Viewport overrides seem finicky, but maybe not terrible given the eyedropper.

Thanks

Ryan