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Every tool on the brass bookmark leaves a mark, and its glyph draws that mark — chalk's tapered stroke, a wash's soft pooled blot, scissors mid-cut — rather than a picture of the instrument. The active tool sits lit in a dark recess; tools with color/tint variants grow a small brass tab beside the bar while they're selected.

Tooltips: roll the Apple Pencil (hover, no touch) or a mouse over any glyph and its label appears after a moment. On a finger with no hover, touch and hold a glyph — it shows the label instead of switching tools; lift without moving to just take a look.

Chalk

The tapered stroke; tilt the pencil for the side of the stick. Has three color variants — tap the glyph again to reopen them.

Red chalk (sanguine)

Black chalk

White chalk

Silverpoint

The unwavering hairline; only marks on prepared ground, and catches a soft glint under the light.

Silverpoint ground

Coats the paper so silver can bite. Tint beside the bar:

Natural — warm cream

Sanguine tint — terracotta

Powder green — sage

Ink & wash

Reed pen

The committed incised line; dwell with pressure to blot.

Brush pen

Light touch for a fine line, press for a fat expressive stroke; never runs dry.

Flat wash

Translucent, pools and darkens at the rim; press harder for a bigger, wetter pool that bleeds more into other wet ink and wash — never runs dry.

Reed, brush and wash share the same three ink colors:

Bistre — warm brown (wood-soot, Renaissance)

Iron-gall — blue-black (Baroque)

Gold — opaque metallic ink

Clear water

Wets the paper, lifts and bleeds ink and wash.

Frisket (masking)

Frisket

Cut a mask that blocks future marks; it never erases what's already drawn.

Invert the cut — un-block instead of block

Lift mask from the drawing — block wherever marks already sit

Clear the mask — un-block the whole leaf

Pictures

Bring a picture

Arrange what lies on the pages — fragments and pictures wake under this tool.

Bring a picture onto this page — a GIF or APNG comes in moving

Bind a moving picture as a flipbook — its frames are dealt one per right-hand page, in the corner, so a thumb along the fore-edge plays it, on paper too

Choose a desk photo — it lies behind the book (choosing again replaces it)

Bare desk — put the photo away

Relic (kept gesture)

Relic

Draw with a kept gesture — take a scrap from the book's corner and every pen stroke stamps a copy of it in your last material. Drag sets size and angle; it stays in hand until you change tools.

Keep a relic — arm, and the next stroke you draw with any tool is captured as a reusable gesture

Scissors & glue

Scissors

Draw across a torn leaf or picture to cut it — a loop snips a shape, a stroke slices in two. Drag the loose pieces apart, then tap a piece's pin to keep it (tap bare paper to drop whatever's left). Once kept, the knob turns a piece and the corners size it.

Glue — tap a loose piece to press it into the paper forever, or draw the brush along one edge to glue just that edge (the piece stays a leaf you can lift, and what it hides is underneath)

Pin — tap a loose piece to rivet it through its middle as a wheel: a finger turns it, and it keeps whatever angle you leave it at. Tap a pinned wheel again to work it free.

Glue down every loose piece on this leaf — the whole collage becomes paper

Guides

Scribe true lines to work to. These are guides, not marks — nothing is inked, nothing is exported.

Compass — prick a centre and swing out a radius

Straightedge — rule a line between two points

Root rectangle — Barnstone's aid: drag out a golden-section or root proportion, sized by its own diagonal. Drag sideways for landscape, downward for portrait; several can sit on a page at once, for comparing a thumbnail-scale study against a full-page one

Its ratio picker appears in the flyout while root rectangle is selected — each icon is drawn at its true proportion:

Golden section (φ ≈ 1.618) — the only ratio that also shows its gnomon cut, the mark of the square that would leave a smaller golden rectangle behind

Root-2 rectangle (√2 ≈ 1.414)

Root-3 rectangle (√3 ≈ 1.732)

Root-4 rectangle (√4 = 2)

Root-5 rectangle (√5 ≈ 2.236)

Snap — the pen is drawn to a scribed line while you work near it (drawing only — scissors always cut freehand)

Sweep the scribed lines off the open pages

Pastel (borrowed palette)

Pastel

Tap to import a TINCTURE palette as a temporary set of colors — a chalk stick's stroke, plus a torn paper tag marking it as a borrowed, temporary set. Colors appear as a grid of swatches; long-press a swatch that carries a fragment to lift its scrap into hand.

Sort swatches by colour, value & temperature (tap again to sort by time)

Put the borrowed palette away — nothing already drawn or glued with it is undone

Its swatch grid and the sort/put-away actions now sit as two separately-sized plates — the grid can run wide for a big palette, while the two action icons below stay their own small width instead of stretching to match it.

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