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Styles, Palettes And Canvases

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A map's style sets its layout, link lines, colours, fonts and canvas. FerventMind comes with 36 styles, and you can save your own as style sets.

Choose A Style

Choose Map Style… in the Map menu (Map ▸ Map Style… on iPhone and iPad) and open Style Sets. Choose a style and Apply to This Map, or Use for New Maps. The built-in styles include Foundation (the default for new maps), Chalk Talk, Kraft, Watercolour, Blueprint, Dot Journal and High Contrast.

Change The Look

The other tabs of Map Style… change one map:

  • Map: the layout, Hand Drawn shapes, Auto Align, compact spacing, and the links between topics (straight, curved, tapered and more).
  • Color: full colour or wireframe, the canvas (paper, patterns, dark and plain colours, or an image of your own), link opacity and rainbow branches.
  • General: callouts and the notes font.

Select a branch and choose Branch Layout… to lay out just that branch differently.

Save Your Own Style Sets

  • Save Map as New Set… keeps the map's look as a style set, in iCloud Drive ▸ FerventMind ▸ Styles, on all your devices.
  • A map can follow a set: change the set with Update from This Map, and every map that follows it changes too. The last 5 versions of each set are kept under Earlier Versions.
  • Import… brings in style sets (.fvstyle) and iThoughts styles (.itmz-style).

Named Styles

A named style is a look you can give to any topic: select a topic, then Topic ▸ Named Style ▸ New Style from Selection…. Change it once with Redefine Style from Selection and every topic using it changes. A named style can be applied automatically to topics that match its rule. Named styles are listed in Map Setup.

Colour Palettes

Settings ▸ Colors and Styles ▸ Color Palettes holds the palettes shown in the Color popover. Add your own; they appear on all your devices.

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