Sometimes you want a shape to stand out, or a set of arrows to look consistent, without fiddling with fill, border, weight, and pattern one control at a time. Style presets give you a Presets section in the selected-element context menu with ready-made looks you can apply in a single click. Presets is the first accordion inside the element's Style menu, alongside Colours and Border, and presets always track your active colour scheme so they stay on-brand.
Shape presets
Right-click a single shape, open the Style menu, and expand Presets to find a grid of ready-made looks, plus a reset. Each preset is a complete look: it sets the shape's fill, border, and text colour together with a matching border treatment (weight and pattern), so one click restyles the whole shape. Presets deliberately leave the corner radius alone, so a rounded card stays rounded and a sharp box stays sharp whichever look you pick.
The grid offers up to fifteen colour scheme-derived looks, ordered from quiet to loud: the on-colour scheme default, then ghost, muted, soft, tinted, solid, bold, inked, outline, dotted, and frame variants, and finally four semantic status looks (info, success, warning, and danger). On multi-colour schemes you also get a card per branch hue. Text colour is auto-contrasted on filled variants so labels stay readable. Reset to default clears the shape's colour and border overrides, returning it to its colour scheme default in one click.
Arrow presets
Right-click a single arrow and the Presets category offers twelve one-click arrow styles, ordered from plain lines to dashed patterns to animated flows. Each combines a line pattern (solid / dashed / dotted), a thickness, and an optional flow animation, so you get looks like a fine dashed arrow, a bold line, a travelling-dot arrow, or a racing signal pulse. Reset to default clears the arrow's pattern, thickness, and animation overrides.
Good to know
- The Presets category appears only when a single element is selected, and only the matching set shows: shape presets for a shape, arrow presets for an arrow.
- Each preset applies as one undo step, so you can revert a look in a single press.
- Because colour presets are colour scheme-derived, switching the diagram's colour scheme refreshes the available colours to match.
Use a bold or inked colour preset to draw the eye to the one shape that matters, then leave the rest on the colour scheme default for contrast.
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