TOOLS
| P | Draw |
| V | Select shapes |
| A | Select anchors |
| I | Eyedropper |
VIEW
| Space+drag | Pan |
| Space+scroll | Zoom |
| RESET VIEW | Reset pan and zoom to 100% |
| LIGHT MODE | Toggle a white canvas and UI (the canvas color is also used for exports) |
DRAWING
| Click | Place anchor |
| R | Rotate arc direction |
| Click near first anchor | Close and finish path |
| Enter, Q or Right-Click | Finish path (open, needs a stroke to be visible) |
| Escape | Cancel path |
| Shift | Snap arc to 45˚ increments (only when dot grid is off) |
SELECT (shapes)
| Click shape | Select |
| Drag shape | Move |
| Alt+drag shape | Duplicate and move |
| Cmd/Ctrl+C/V | Copy & paste |
| Drag corner handle | Scale |
| Drag origin handle | Reposition the origin point |
| Right-click+drag | Scale and rotate around the origin |
| Drag empty canvas | Marquee select |
| F | Flip horizontal |
| M | Flip vertical |
| R | Rotate 90° |
| Backspace / Delete | Delete selected |
| Escape | Deselect |
The origin handle appears at the shape's bounding box center when selected. Moving it sets the pivot for right-click scale/rotate.
EYEDROPPER
| Right-click shape | Pick its style (fill, stroke, texture, roundness) |
| Left-click shape | Apply the picked style to it |
SELECT (anchors)
| Click anchor | Select |
| Shift+click anchor | Add to / remove from selection |
| Drag anchor | Move selected anchors |
| Drag empty canvas | Marquee select |
| Arrow keys | Nudge 1px |
| Dot Grid + Arrow keys | Nudge by grid step (20px) |
| Backspace / Delete | Delete selected anchors |
| Escape | Deselect |
EDIT
| Ctrl/Cmd+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z | Redo |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Y | Redo |
| Shift+G | Group / Ungroup |
| G | Toggle dot grid |
FILL & STROKE
| Adjust width field | Set stroke width in px (0 = no stroke) |
| Right-click palette | Set stroke color |
| Left-click palette | Set fill color |
| Toggle ROUND | Toggle round line caps and joins |
| Click dash swatches | Solid, dashed, dotted, or dash-dot |
| Drag color swatch to shape | Apply fill directly |
| Right-click drag color swatch to shape | Apply stroke directly |
| Drag texture swatch → shape | Apply texture fill |
Stroke and fill settings apply to both new and currently selected shapes.
FILE & EXPORT
| EXPORT PNG | Download the drawing as a PNG image |
| EXPORT SVG | Download the drawing as an SVG |
| COPY SVG | Copy the SVG markup to the clipboard |
| NO BG | Export with a transparent background |
| ARTBOARD | Add a paper-sized board (A1–A6, Square, 4:3, 5:4) or edit the selected one |
| Click board label | Select an artboard (select tool); drag the label to move it |
| SAVE .arc | Save an editable project file |
| LOAD .arc | Open a saved project file |
| CLEAR | Remove all shapes from the canvas |
If shapes are selected, the EXPORT functions export only those.
If an artboard is selected, the EXPORT functions export exactly that area, and the SVG gets the board's paper size in mm. A board's SCALE (set in the ARTBOARD panel) sets how big it is on the canvas: an A5 is 559×794px at 1× and 1119×1587px at 2×. The paper size doesn't change, so stroke widths are relatively thinner on a larger-scale board (1px ≈ 0.26mm at 1×, ≈ 0.13mm at 2×). PNG exports are 1:1 with the canvas.
Output license
You can use files you create with Il—Verse for anything (personal, educational, commercial) except those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens ("NFT"), crypto, web3 or blockchain-related projects.
No attribution required, but if you'd like to:
Created with POLYARC DRAW (https://hlnet.neocities.org/polyarc-draw), a tool made by Heikki Lotvonen (https://heikkilotvonen.com)
Output is provided as-is, no warranty.