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The Studio at a glance

Find your way around the Studio: the library, the drawing board, the timeline and the inspector.

Open the Studio from Studio in the site menu. It runs in your browser; there’s nothing to install.

The Studio with the icon library on the left, the rocket on the drawing board in the middle, the motion timeline below it, and the inspector on the right
  • Library (left): every icon, grouped into Web essentials, Emoji faces, Reactions and Starter set, plus a Custom group for icons you save. Type in Search 126 icons to filter, and click an icon to open it on the board.
  • Board (middle): the icon drawn on a 24 × 24 grid. The toolbar above it holds the drawing tools, Snap, Show and Keylines.
  • Timeline (below the board): animate the icon. See Animate with the timeline.
  • Inspector (right): the icon’s Name and Group, its Shapes, the Selected shape, a preview in Every variant, and Export.

Across the top: Undo, Redo, Image → icon, New icon and Save to library.

The bar along the bottom of the board shows the icon’s name, the cursor position in grid units, and a hint for what to do next.

Open an icon straight from a link by adding its name after #, like /studio#bell.