Affinity Designer keyboard shortcuts

Explore all 84 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys for Affinity Designer 2025 on an interactive visual keyboard. Toggle modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta), filter by category, and search any command or key combination.

Top shortcuts

  • Escape — Cancel operation
  • F1 — Help
  • Tab — Toggle UI
  • T — Cycle text tools
  • Y — Transparency tool
  • I — Color picker tool
  • P — Pen tool
  • BracketLeft — Decrease brush size
  • BracketRight — Increase brush size
  • A — Node tool
  • F — Point transform tool
  • G — Fill tool
  • H — View tool
  • Semicolon — Toggle snapping
  • Backslash — Clip to canvas
  • Z — Zoom tool
  • X — Toggle active selector
  • C — Corner tool
  • V — Move tool
  • B — Vector brush tool
  • N — Pencil tool
  • M — Cycle shape tool
  • Period — Reset selection box
  • Slash — Set fill or stroke to none
  • Ctrl+1 — Zoom to 100%
  • Ctrl+2 — Zoom to 200%
  • Ctrl+3 — Zoom to 400%
  • Ctrl+4 — Zoom to 800%
  • Ctrl+8 — Zoom to actual size
  • Ctrl+9 — Zoom to pixel size

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