Modal pill (quick edits)
Fast stroke, fill, and text edits from the floating selection bar.
On phone and tablet, Vellum surfaces a frosted modal pill above the tool strip when you select markup or use certain drawing tools. It keeps common style edits one tap away without opening the full Properties sidebar.
The main pill
After you select an entity, a rounded capsule appears near the bottom (or top, if you docked the bar there) with compact controls: fill and stroke swatches, line weight, linetype, arrowheads, opacity, duplicate, delete, and ⋯ for the full right-click menu.
- Color swatches — tap fill or stroke to open a modal panel with quick palette picks and full color controls.
- Line weight — tap the thickness control for preset stops and a numeric field.
- Linetype & arrows — change dash style and arrow caps inline when the selection supports them.
- Text — the T control opens typography settings for text and callouts.
- Gap — while Region fill (
B) is active, a Gap button opens gap-tolerance presets (Small / Medium / Large / Custom) for bridging open corners on plans. - More (⋯) — same commands as right-click, including Close Polyline and Convert to area measurement when applicable.
Modal panels
Tapping a swatch or the text button slides up a modal panel (a small sheet with a back chevron and title such as Color, Fill, Gap tolerance, Text, or Style). Edit there, then tap back to return to the main pill. Tap outside the pill stack to dismiss everything.
While drawing with the Pen tool, the pill can show Done to commit the current stroke. During offset, a dedicated offset pill replaces the style pill until you finish or cancel.
Desktop quick edits
Desktop editing still centers on the Properties panel. For fast numeric edits on curves, hover a selected arc or circle: a small radius pill (R =) appears on the canvas so you can type an exact radius without leaving the drawing.
While drawing polylines and polygons, a dark input HUD follows the cursor showing length, angle, and slope fields — type values there for constraint-driven segments. Use ↑/↓ to select the length or angle field, ←/→ to switch the angle unit (degrees, slope %, H:V), and Ctrl to flip the angle's sign (see Typed input while drawing).