Lacoura Vector

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts follow the conventions of the industry-standard vector editors, so muscle memory carries over. Tools marked not built yet still hold their shortcut — pressing it tells you the tool is coming rather than doing nothing.

Tools that work today

Key	Tool
V	Selection
A	Direct Selection
P	Pen
T	Type
N	Pencil
M	Rectangle
L	Ellipse
\	Line Segment
C	Scissors
Shift + O	Artboard
—	Polygon, Star, Arc, Spiral, Rectangular Grid — no shortcut; hold the Rectangle or Line cell
H	Hand
Z	Zoom

Tools not built yet

These keys are reserved and the tools are visible in the rail:

Key	Tool
Y	Magic Wand
Q	Lasso
+ / -	Add / delete anchor point
Shift + C	Anchor Point (corner ↔ smooth)
B / Shift + B	Paintbrush / Blob Brush
Shift + E	Eraser
R	Rotate — dragging the top handle in Selection already rotates
S	Scale — dragging a handle in Selection already scales
O	Reflect
Shift + W	Width
E	Free Transform
Shift + M	Shape Builder
K	Live Paint Bucket
Shift + P	Perspective Grid
U	Mesh
W	Blend
G	Gradient
I	Eyedropper
Shift + K	Slice

Everything else

Key	Action
Cmd/Ctrl + Z	Undo
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z	Redo
Esc	End the current path, or close a flyout
Shift while dragging	Constrain proportions