Customise color, opacity, width, and style

Every shape carries its own style. You can also change the editor-wide defaults so new shapes start the way you want.

Per-shape colour, opacity, width, and template variant from the Attribute Panel.

Per-shape style

1. Press V for Select, then click a shape.
2. The Attribute Panel on the right exposes:
   • Color (palette + custom)
   • Opacity (0–100%)
   • Width (for line-like shapes)
   • Style (solid / dashed / template variant)

Multi-select to apply the same change to several shapes at once.

Style before you place (tool defaults)

You don’t have to place a shape and then recolour it. When a creation tool is active, its panel on the right already exposes the style the next shape will use — set it first, then draw:

1. Activate a tool — for example press P for Participants.
2. In the tool panel, pick the Template, Color, and Opacity before clicking. (Click More… under Color for the full palette.)
3. Click on the canvas. The new shape is created with those settings.

Whatever you set on a tool panel sticks as that tool’s default, so every shape you draw next starts the same way — a fast way to lay down, say, a row of red vehicles without recolouring each one. Existing shapes are not touched.

To roll a tool’s defaults back to the factory settings, open the hamburger menu and pick Reset Tool Defaults.

Color palette

drawtonomy uses a Tailwind-style palette (grey-100 through grey-900, plus colours). For the full list, see Color palette reference.

See also

• drawtonomy.svg format — how style is persisted across save/load.