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 theme 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 theme-derived looks, ordered from quiet to loud: the on-theme 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 themes 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 theme 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 theme-derived, switching the diagram's theme 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 theme default for contrast.
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