[Feature]: Canvas background color changer

[tannershimanek]

What's the feature?

I want to build a canvas background color selection. This will helps users personalize their experience by letting them select the background color of their canvas.

Here is an excalidraw example:

There will be a selection of preset colors for both light and dark mode. I will also add a custom hex code input.

Contact Details

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[ScarboroughCoral]

Is there any update or progress？

[tannershimanek]

@ScarboroughCoral Hi yes, sorry for my absence. I am working on development now.

[tannershimanek]

Update

I feel like the preferences is the best location for this. However, I am open to new ideas.

Here are some of the light mode canvas colors I am thinking about.

[tannershimanek]

Update

Dark mode color options. I like these options a lot more than the light options lol. Again feedback is appreciated.

[CodeTorso]

Hey! Any further updates ? Like when will this be done ?

[tannershimanek]

@CodeTorso I am planning on about 2 weeks. I have been a little busy lately. I'll let you know if sooner.

[CodeTorso]

No worries

[tannershimanek]

I am about ready to create a pull request for this. However, I am not sure how to handle translations. Is there a file where I add translations? Or how do I get them? I just need 'custom' and 'default' to be translated for menu labels. Thanks in advance!

[mimecuvalo]

Hey @tannershimanek thanks for your explorations here!

While our tldraw.com flagship product won't be adding a background color changer like this, it's certainly possible for people using our tooling to create these experiences for themselves on their own remixed versions of tldraw! (as you are probably discovering :) This is the power of tldraw, that you can take the library, add new features and extend it to make it your own.