Inkscape keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Printable cheat sheet covering all 185 Inkscape 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.

All shortcuts

  • F1 — Selector
  • S — Selector
  • Space — Selector (temporary)
  • F2 — Node tool
  • N — Node tool
  • F3 — Zoom tool
  • Z — Zoom tool
  • M — Measure tool
  • F4 — Ractangle tool
  • R — Ractangle tool
  • Shift+F4 — 3D box tool
  • X — 3D box tool
  • F5 — Ellipse/arc tool
  • E — Ellipse/arc tool
  • Shift+F9 — Star tool
  • F9 — Spiral tool
  • I — Spiral tool
  • F6 — Pencil (Freehand) tool
  • P — Pencil (Freehand) tool
  • Shift+F6 — Pen (Bezier) tool
  • B — Pen (Bezier) tool
  • Ctrl+F6 — Calligraphic tool
  • C — Calligraphic tool
  • F8 — Text tool
  • T — Text tool
  • Shift+F3 — Spray tool
  • A — Spray tool
  • Shift+E — Eraser tool
  • Shift+F7 — Paint bucket tool
  • U — Paint bucket tool
  • Ctrl+F1 — Gradient tool
  • G — Gradient tool
  • F7 — Dropper tool
  • D — Dropper tool
  • Ctrl+F2 — Connector tool
  • O — Connector tool
  • Ctrl+Shift+F — Fill and Stroke
  • Ctrl+Shift+W — Swatches
  • Ctrl+Shift+T — Text and font
  • Ctrl+Shift+M — Transform
  • Ctrl+Shift+L — Layers
  • Ctrl+Shift+A — Align and Distribute
  • Ctrl+Shift+O — Object Properties
  • Ctrl+Shift+H — Undo history
  • Ctrl+Shift+X — XML editor
  • Ctrl+Shift+D — Document preferences
  • Ctrl+Shift+P — Inkscape preferences
  • Ctrl+Shift+E — Export to PNG
  • Ctrl+F — Find
  • Shift+Alt+B — Trace bitmap
  • Ctrl+Shift+7 — Path Effects
  • Ctrl+Alt+K — Check Spelling
  • F12 — Toggle dialogs
  • Escape — Return to the canvas
  • Ctrl+F4 — Close the dialog
  • Ctrl+W — Close the dialog
  • Tab — Jump to the next widget
  • Shift+Tab — Jump to previous widget
  • Enter — Set the new value
  • Space — Activate current button or list
  • Enter — Activate current button or list
  • Ctrl+PageUp — In a multi-tab dialog, switch tabs
  • Ctrl+PageDown — In a multi-tab dialog, switch tabs
  • Ctrl+F — Open a search field in a dialog with a list
  • Equal — expand direct children of the currently selected element
  • Minus — collapse the currently selected element
  • Home — select the topmost/lowermost visible element in the list
  • End — select the topmost/lowermost visible element in the list
  • ArrowUp — select the previous/next visible element in the list
  • ArrowDown — select the previous/next visible element in the list
  • PageUp — select element on previous/next page of list
  • PageDown — select element on previous/next page of list
  • Ctrl+Enter — set the attribute's value
  • Alt+X — Jump to the first editable filed
  • Tab — Jump to next field
  • Shift+Tab — Jump to previous field
  • ArrowUp — Change value by 0.1
  • ArrowDown — Change value by 0.1
  • PageUp — Change value by 5.0
  • PageDown — Change value by 5.0
  • Enter — Accept the new value
  • Escape — Cancel changes, return to canvas
  • Ctrl+Z — Cancel changes
  • Equal — Zoom in
  • Minus — Zoom out
  • Alt+Z — Activate zoon field
  • 1 — Zoom 1:1
  • 2 — Zoom 1:2
  • 3 — Zoom to selection
  • 4 — Zoom to drawing
  • 5 — Zoom to page
  • Ctrl+E — Zoom to page width
  • 6 — Zoom to page width
  • Backquote — Previous zoom
  • Shift+Quote — Next zoom
  • Ctrl+ArrowUp — Scroll canvas
  • Ctrl+ArrowDown — Scroll canvas
  • Ctrl+ArrowRight — Scroll canvas
  • Ctrl+ArrowLeft — Scroll canvas
  • Shift+Backslash — Toggle guides and snapping to guides
  • Shift+3 — Toggle grids and snapping to grids
  • Ctrl+Shift+R — resize page to current selection, or to the drawing if nothing is selected
  • Ctrl+N — Create new document
  • Ctrl+O — Open an SVG document
  • Ctrl+Shift+E — Export to PNG
  • Ctrl+I — Import bitmap or SVG
  • Ctrl+P — Print document
  • Ctrl+S — Save document
  • Ctrl+Shift+S — Save under a new name
  • Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S — Save a copy
  • Ctrl+Q — Exit inkscape
  • Ctrl+R — Toggle rulers
  • Ctrl+B — Toggle scrollbars
  • Shift+Alt+P — toggle palette
  • F11 — Toggle fullscreen
  • Shift+F11 — Toggle toolbars
  • Ctrl+F11 — Toggle toolbars and fullscreen
  • F10 — Main menu
  • Shift+F10 — Drop-down menu
  • Ctrl+F4 — Close document window
  • Ctrl+W — Close document window
  • Ctrl+Tab — Next document window
  • Ctrl+Shift+Tab — Previous document window
  • Ctrl+Shift+N — Create new layer
  • Shift+PageUp — Move to layer above
  • Shift+PageDown — Move to layer below
  • Ctrl+Shift+PageUp — Raise layer
  • Ctrl+Shift+PageDown — Lower layer
  • Ctrl+Shift+Home — Raise layer to top
  • Ctrl+Shift+End — Lower layer to bottom
  • Ctrl+Shift+Y — Undo
  • Ctrl+Z — Undo
  • Ctrl+Shift+Z — Redo
  • Ctrl+Y — Redo
  • Ctrl+C — Copy selection
  • Ctrl+X — Cut selection
  • Ctrl+V — Paste clipboard
  • Ctrl+Alt+V — Paste in place
  • Ctrl+Shift+V — Paste style
  • Ctrl+7 — Paste path effect
  • Ctrl+D — Duplicate selection
  • Alt+D — Clone object
  • Shift+Alt+D — Unlink clone
  • Shift+D — Select original
  • Alt+B — Create a bitmap copy
  • Shift+Alt+B — Trace bitmap
  • Alt+I — Object to pattern
  • Shift+Alt+I — Pattern to objects
  • Ctrl+Shift+U — Group selected objects
  • Ctrl+G — Group selected objects
  • Ctrl+Shift+G — Ungroup selected objects
  • Ctrl+U — Ungroup selected objects
  • Home — Raise selection to top
  • End — Lower selection to bottom
  • PageUp — Raise selection one step
  • PageDown — Lower selection one step
  • Shift+M — move mode
  • Shift+0 — move mode
  • Shift+I — move in/out mode
  • Shift+1 — move in/out mode
  • Shift+Z — move jitter mode
  • Shift+2 — move jitter mode
  • Shift+3 — scale mode
  • Shift+BracketLeft — rotate mode
  • Shift+BracketRight — rotate mode
  • Shift+4 — rotate mode
  • Shift+D — duplicate/delete mode
  • Shift+5 — duplicate/delete mode
  • Shift+P — push path mode
  • Shift+6 — push path mode
  • Shift+S — shrink/grow path mode
  • Shift+7 — shrink/grow path mode
  • Shift+A — attract/repel path mode
  • Shift+8 — attract/repel path mode
  • Shift+R — roughen mode
  • Shift+9 — roughen mode
  • Shift+C — color paint mode
  • Shift+J — color jitter mode
  • Shift+B — blur mode
  • ArrowLeft — Adjust brush width by
  • ArrowRight — Adjust brush width by
  • Home — Set brush width to its minimum or maximum
  • End — Set brush width to its minimum or maximum
  • ArrowUp — Adjust tweaking force
  • ArrowDown — Adjust tweaking force
  • Space — Hand/Pan Tool (Temporary)
  • ShiftLeft — Constrain/Straight Line
  • MouseLeft — Edit/Open Item

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