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Brush settings key b

Tune the active brush and, for connecting brushes, the look of the web.

What it is

One panel with two tabs, opened from the brush pill's gear, the Windows menu, or b. The Brush tab holds size, opacity and the selected brush's own options; the Web tab (shown only for brushes that weave a web) holds the art-style dials. (The web's routing - which map it reads from / writes to - lives in the Maps panel.) Reset reverts both to defaults.

Brush tab

Size

Stroke width.

Opacity

How solid the mark is. A faint continuous stroke composites at one even alpha (no darkening where caps overlap).

Brush options

Whatever the active brush exposes - e.g. the dash style, or shape sizing. See Brushes.

Pen

With a stylus, map pressure and tilt to size, opacity, even the web - see Pen & pressure. (Gated by the pen toggle in Application settings.)

Web tab

Art style

Pick a style (Sketchy, Web, Shaded, Chrome, Longfur, Fur, Lace…) - the quick picker also lives in the Brush combo, under Web.

Web weight

How heavy the web reads, as three one-click presets - Light, Normal, Heavy - that move Weight (lines per point), Density and Links together. Normal is each art style's own default (selected to start); Light thins the web out, Heavy fills it in. The numbers are tailored per style, so a heavy Web differs from a heavy Shaded. Click Customize to reveal the underlying Weight / Spread / Density / Links sliders; nudging any of them drops you to no preset (custom). Turn on help hints (?) for the inline explainer.

Art-style dials

How each line looks - Reach, Opacity, Fade, Curl, Grain, line shape, Color (Primary / Secondary / Gradient / Rainbow) and more. Each style surfaces the dials that shape it. Full reference in Connections.

Save as preset

Store the current dials as a reusable custom preset (managed from the Brush settings' Web tab).