Style Drawer Overview

While the Content Drawer dictates what data is in your schedule, the Style Drawer controls exactly how it looks.

Located on the right side of the Editor interface, the Style Drawer is your command center for typography, borders, padding, cell dimensions, and image effects. Vellum replaces Revit’s scattered, disjointed appearance dialogs with a single, unified styling pipeline.

Context-Aware Styling

The most important concept to understand about the Style Drawer is that it operates on context. The styles you apply are determined entirely by what is currently selected on your canvas.

Look for the “Applying To” indicator at the top of the drawer to verify your target. Try clicking a cell in the demo below, or clicking the gray background to clear your selection:

grid_onExcel-Style Canvas

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Style Editor

Applying To

auto_fix_highEntire Table

text_formatTypography & Fill

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format_align_centerAlign, Distribute & Size

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border_allBorder & Padding

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imageImage Formatting

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paletteThemes & Presets

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Selection Targets

• Entire Table (Base Style): If nothing is selected on the canvas, any style you apply (like changing the global font to Arial) affects the entire schedule. This serves as your base standard.
• Columns / Rows: Clicking a column header (A, B, C) or row header (1, 2, 3) selects that entire strip. Any styles applied here will override the Base Style.
• Cells: Clicking individual cells (or clicking and dragging to select multiple) allows for hyper-specific local overrides, like bolding a single critical value or drawing a thick red border around an empty cell.

(Note: Cell styles always override Row/Column styles, and Row/Column styles always override the Base Style).

The Five Toolsets

The drawer is logically divided into five distinct toolsets:

1. Typography & Fill: Control fonts, text sizes, text colors, background fills, and alternating row striping.
2. Align, Distribute, Size: Force exact pixel dimensions for columns and rows, or automatically distribute spacing evenly.
3. Border & Padding: Select a pen color, style, and weight, then apply it to specific edges of your selection.
4. Image Formatting: Determine how images fit within their cells, and apply visual effects like drop shadows, reflections, and bevels.
5. Themes & Presets: Instantly apply complete global color themes or single-click style overrides for common architectural use cases.