Colour

The palette icon in the toolbar opens the colour panel. Whatever colour is selected is what your next stroke, shape or fill uses.

Palettes

Along the top of the panel is a row of palettes. Dynamic is the built-in one; Add creates a new palette from the colours you are using now. Tapping the palette you are on opens its own settings.

Below, a scrollable row of swatches is the palette itself. Tap one to select it.

The first swatch is an eyedropper. Tap it for the full colour picker — a saturation and brightness square with a hue slider — and confirm with Select.

The Hsl strip

The chip labelled Hsl swaps the swatches for a single hue bar you can drag along. It is a quick way to walk through shades, and a slower way to hit an exact colour than the full picker.

Editing a palette

From the palette's own dialog you can:

• Rename it, with the pencil icon.
• Add a colour with the + cell.
• Remove a colour with the bin on its cell.
• Delete the palette entirely, with the bin in the button row.
• Turn on Always confirm delete color so you are asked before a colour goes.

The eyedropper tool

Choose Eyedropper from the mode menu, then tap the canvas. A magnifier follows your finger and the hex code is shown along the bottom.

• Use takes that colour and returns you to drawing.
• Cancel throws it away.

The canvas background

The background is separate from your colours. Find it in Settings, under General> Interface> Background, where you can pick any colour or make it transparent. A transparent background shows the app's own background colour, which is what makes an infinite canvas read as a sheet of paper.