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How do I create Color Presets?

Color Presets let you set up a reusable set of colors for each annotation tool — perfect for a color-coding system — and you create them right in the Style Palette.

While using annotation tools such as text marking, typing, free draw, or shapes, tap the colored circle on the Toolbar to open the Style Palette. From there you can customize colors, fonts, opacity, and line weight — the options shown depend on the tool.

Each tool has its own set of Color Presets. For example, here's the Style Palette for the Rectangle tool:

To edit a preset, tap the Color Preset slot you'd like to change. Any color and opacity changes made while that slot is selected are saved to it for later use.

✅ TIP: Need more preset slots? Use Saved Annotations to build a library of your most-used annotations.

Tapping Color or Fill Color opens the Color Menu, which offers several ways to choose a color.

The default is the Color Grid — choose from 120 preselected colors:

Tap Spectrum to pick any color across the spectrum:

Tap Sliders to zero in on exact RGB values, or enter a Display P3 hex color manually:

And from any of these screens, tap the Color Picker Eyedropper in the upper left to grab an exact color from the document:

✅ TIP: You can also save color selections in the bottom section of each color screen so you can return to them.

📝 NOTE: Color Presets are specific to the device they're created on.

What's Next

What are Saved Annotations and how do I use them?

An Overview of the Annotation Toolbar

Inserting photos and images into your script

Updated on: 30/05/2026

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