Elements & Tools
Shapes
Shapes give structure and diagrams to your canvas: highlight zones, build flows, or just put a big friendly star on the thing that matters.
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The twelve
Square, rounded rectangle, circle, triangle, diamond, speech bubble, parallelogram, star, arrow (right), double arrow, pentagon — and a straight line (which behaves specially; see below).
Creating shapes
Press F (or the Shapes tool) and pick a shape from the popover. Then either click the canvas for a default-sized shape, or drag to draw it exactly the size you want. On iPhone/iPad: + → Shapes opens the same grid.
Styling
Select a shape and the floating bar offers:
- Fill color — the palette, any custom color, or no fill (outline only — ideal for framing a zone of the canvas without hiding what’s in it).
- Border — color, no border, and a thickness slider from hairline 1 up to chunky 12 pixels.
Shapes resize from corners and edges, and rotate via the rotation handle or Cmd/Ctrl-drag — with gentle snapping at 0°, 90°, 180°, 270°.
The line shape
The line is a free two-point line: drag to draw it anywhere, hold Shift to snap to 0°/45°/90°. Its floating bar adds end caps (none, arrow, dot, square) and stroke width — making it the manual sibling of the magnetic arrow, for when you want a line that doesn’t attach to elements.