Affinity Designer keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 84 Affinity Designer 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All 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
- Ctrl+0 — Zoom to fit
- Ctrl+Minus — Zoom out
- Ctrl+Equal — Zoom in
- Ctrl+Tab — Switch view
- Ctrl+W — Close
- Ctrl+R — Rulers
- Ctrl+T — Character
- Ctrl+Y — Redo
- Ctrl+O — Open
- Ctrl+P — Print
- Ctrl+BracketLeft — Back one
- Ctrl+BracketRight — Forward one
- Ctrl+Enter — Convert to curves
- Ctrl+A — Select all
- Ctrl+S — Save
- Ctrl+G — Group
- Ctrl+J — Duplicate
- Ctrl+L — Lock
- Ctrl+Semicolon — Show guides
- Ctrl+Quote — Show grid
- Ctrl+Z — Undo
- Ctrl+X — Cut
- Ctrl+C — Copy
- Ctrl+V — Paste
- Ctrl+N — New
- Ctrl+M — Curves
- Space — Hold for view tool
- W — Selection brush
- E — Erase brush
- I — Color picker tool
- O — Cycle dodge or burn brushes
- BracketLeft — Decrease brush size
- BracketRight — Increase brush size
- G — Flood fill tool
- L — Freehand selection tool
- X — Toggle active selector
- V — Move tool
- B — Cycle brush or pixel tools
- M — Cycle marquees
- Period — Reset selection box
- Ctrl+T — Character panel
- Ctrl+Shift+T — Typography dialog
- Ctrl+B — Bold
- Ctrl+I — Italic
- Ctrl+U — Underline
- Ctrl+Alt+L — Align left
- Ctrl+Alt+C — Align center
- Ctrl+Alt+R — Align right
- Shift+Alt+ArrowLeft — Tighten spacing more
- Shift+Alt+ArrowRight — Loosen spacing more
- Ctrl+Shift+Alt+ArrowUp — Precise raise baseline
- Ctrl+Shift+Alt+ArrowDown — Precise lower baseline
- Ctrl+Alt+ArrowDown — Precise increase leading
- Ctrl+Alt+ArrowUp — Precise decrease leading
- MouseMiddle — Pan Canvas
- Ctrl+WheelUp — Zoom In
- Ctrl+WheelDown — Zoom Out
- MouseLeft — Select Object
- Shift+MouseLeft — Add to Selection
- Ctrl+MouseLeft — Resize from Center
- Shift+MouseLeft — Constrain Proportions (Drag Handle)
- Alt+MouseLeft — Duplicate Object (Alt+Drag)
- Alt+MouseLeft — Sample Color (Eyedropper)
- MouseRight — Context Menu
- MouseLeft — Paint Pixel Brush Stroke
- Shift+MouseLeft — Paint Straight Line
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