Shapes, text and vectors

Rotate a shape and round its corners.

Text grows with its content in auto width.

Shapes and vector tools

Key	Tool
R / O	Rectangle / ellipse
L / Shift+L	Line / arrow
P	Pen: click points, drag for curves
Shift+B	Pencil: freehand, smoothed into editable paths; hold Shift for straight segments
X	Shape builder: merge regions of overlapping shapes, Alt-click to remove one, Enter to apply
K	Scale tool: scales size, text, strokes and effects together

Rotate by dragging just outside a corner (Shift snaps to 15 degrees). Alt+R shows the rotation origin so you can move it. Gradients can be linear, radial, angular or diamond.

Colour fields accept hex with or without # (f, ff and fff all mean white; 4 and 8 digits carry opacity), rgb()/rgba(), or bare numbers such as 255, 0, 0 or 255 0 0 50%. Opacity typed this way sets the fill’s opacity. Anything else leaves the colour unchanged.

Type a short hex or rgb value into a colour field.

A shape can morph into any other shape, including hand-drawn paths and shapes with holes.

Text

• Select any part of a text and style it: bold, italic, size, colour, gradient, underline or strikethrough (solid, double, dotted, dashed, wavy), small caps, OpenType features.
• Links: Shift+Cmd+U. Lists: Shift+Cmd+8 bulleted, Shift+Cmd+7 numbered, Tab to nest.
• Auto width and auto height text grows as you type.
• Turn text into editable vector shapes with Shift+Cmd+O.
• Replace a missing or unwanted font in the whole video in one pick.