Drawing Tools

Spectacle gives you a fast, tactile drawing toolkit. Everything you draw is rendered as clean, editable vector shapes stored locally on your machine.

Available Tools

• Freehand Pen & Highlighter: Pressure-sensitive ink with natural smoothing for sketches, handwriting, and visual callouts.
• Geometric Shapes: Rectangles, rounded cards, circles, diamonds, and containers that snap cleanly to nearby elements.
• Smart Connectors: Directional and bidirectional arrows that snap to shape anchor points and automatically route around obstacles.
• Grouping & Alignment: Organize related drawings into bounded frames, align elements with precision guides, and adjust z-order.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• V or 1 — Select
• P or 2 — Pen
• H or 3 — Highlighter
• E or 4 — Eraser
• R or 5 — Rectangle
• C or 6 — Circle (ellipse)
• D — Diamond
• L — Line
• A or 7 — Arrow
• T or 8 — Text
• N — Card / note
• F — Section frame
• Space + Drag — Pan across the canvas
• ⌘ + Scroll — Zoom in and out
• ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z — Undo / Redo