# Styles

Rayon is also about **applying a professional rendering to your drawings** : applying colors, line weights, fonts, text sizes, using hatches and textures, etc.

**All this** can be controlled in Rayon **using** **styles**, located in the property panel.

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### The basics of styles <a href="#h_c0d5ad3f27" id="h_c0d5ad3f27"></a>

In Rayon, **styles document the aspect of all elements** (a text box, a line, a surface, etc.).&#x20;

#### Style types

Styles come in 4 different types; **shape** style, **text** style, **annotation** style and **wall** style. We detail below how each style type works...

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{% tab title="Shape style" %}
**Shape styles** offer the following options:

* Fill (type, opacity, etc)
* Stroke (tickness, color, dashing, etc)

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{% tab title="Text style" %}
**Text styles** offer the following options:

* Text color and size (type, opacity, etc), and text options (units, unit formatting, etc)
* Font family
* Font style (bold, italic, etc)

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**Text options** allow you to further customoze your text's content, with the following options...
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{% tab title="Annotation style" %}
**Annotation styles** offer the following options:

* Text color and size (type, opacity, etc), and text options (units, unit formatting, etc)
* Font family
* Font style (bold, italic, etc)
* Stroke (tickness, color, dashing, etc)
* Extension lines option (tickness, color, dashing, etc)
* Ends styling (arow head, dot, etc) and size
* Head options (block vs text)

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{% tab title="Wall style" %}
**Wall styles** offer the following options:

* Wall thickness
* Fill (type, opacity, etc)
* Stroke (tickness, color, dashing, etc)

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#### Fill types <a href="#h_aeea2b7ec7" id="h_aeea2b7ec7"></a>

In shape and wall styles, the **fill option** can be of different kinds: **solid**, **gradient**, **texture**, **hatch**, and **image**. We detail below how each one works.

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{% tab title="Solid" %}
Fills can use a **`solid`** fill. \
A solid fill is made of single color, and opacity.

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{% tab title="Gradients" %}
Fills can use a **`gradient`**. \
Gradients can be **`Linear`**, **`Angular`** or **`Radial`**.

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For any of those options, controls will be accessible on the canvas to define the position and extents of the gradient. **`Start`** and **`End`** value will allow you to assign a given color to each part of the gradient.
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{% tab title="Texture & hatches" %}
Fills can use a **`Texture`** or a **`Hatch`**. \
Both types of fill allow **choosing a pattern**. If patterns offered in Rayon's libraries are not what you need, **uploading** a seamless texture or a PAT hatch file is also possible.

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For entities carrying a fill using a **hatch** or a **texture**, **the pattern of each element can be edited independently!** To do so, head to the **`Tiling`** field, to enable the option.&#x20;

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You can then manually **use the blue dot to rotate and offset** the pattern, or **simply input precise offset/rotation values** in the tiling panel.

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### Editing, saving & sharing styles

Styles can be either **specific** to a given entity, or **shared** across elements.

Styles can be **edited**, **published**, and **shared** across your drawings.

Let's dive in!

#### Editing a style <a href="#h_f70982897a" id="h_f70982897a"></a>

**Styles' settings** can be found **in the property panel**, on the right.\
Styles can be edited through their **different token fields** (Fill, Stroke, etc), or **swapped**/**saved** through the options of the section header.

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#### Saved styles

At any point, **the style of an element can be saved**, in order to apply it to multiple elements at once. Clicking on **`+`** allows saving styles.

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Once saved, a style displays different options...

* Editing
* Swapping
* Detaching

... accessible on and above the style itself.

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**Editing** a saved style allows changing that style across all shapes carrying it. \
That way, an entire drawing can be redesigned **by simply intervening on the few saved styles** carried by the drawing's elements.

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**Swapping** allows replacing a saved style by another. \
That action can be triggered by using the **quad button**, or by **clicking on the style itself.**

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**Finally, detaching** allows removing a saved style for the current selection. Elements whose style has been detached will go back to having their own specific styling.

### Style libraries & publishing <a href="#h_aeea2b7ec7" id="h_aeea2b7ec7"></a>

At any point, you can **find all the styles contained in your drawing** in the left-side **style panel.**&#x20;

* **`In model styles`** lists all the styles you have in your model
* **`Libraries`** gives you access to extensive libraries

Styles listed under **`In model styles`** can be **curated**, using the panel's options; actions such as...

* **Creating** new styles by clicking on **`+`**
* **Editing/renaming** any given style
* **Deleting** unused styles

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More importantly, this list can be **turned into a library**, by being published.

* Publishing can be found in the **`Share`** modal (upper right corner), under the **`Publish styles`** tab.
* A library can be **refreshed** at any time by hitting **`Refresh`** in the modal.
* Published libraries are accessible by users **within your organization.**

More [on libraries here](#h_aeea2b7ec7-1).

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### **The&#x20;*****active*****&#x20;style**

Each time a creation command gets used, the **active style appears in the property panel**; that style will be **assigned to the things you draw** with the current command.

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### Tutorial

For more step-by-step information, watch our tutorial about how to use styles in Rayon:

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