Pen thickness and line color of text

When you write text, it is displayed using the setting for pen thickness on the Format toolbar and the setting for text color defined in the Text dialog box or the settings for the current layer are used.

In the Options - Text page, you can configure the pen (and thus the color when Color stands for pen is enabled) used for text to be dependent on the text height. For example, you can have text that is between 2.15 mm and 3 mm high be drawn with pen 1, while text that is between 3.00 mm and 4.25 mm is drawn with pen 2.

Color stands for pen means that the color used to display an element on screen is associated with (and thus dependent on) the pen thickness of the element in question. Elements drawn with a certain pen (or pen thickness) are always presented on-screen with the same color, regardless of the colors assigned to the individual elements. You can specify which color represents which pen in the Options (Standard toolbar) on the Desktop environment - Pen colors page. You can switch the Color stands for pen option on and off in Show/Hide on the Standard toolbar.

When the Auto-select pen based on font height option is disabled, the line color and thickness of text is based on the current pen thickness and line color setting on the Format toolbar or on the settings made for the current layer.

Line type no. 1 is always used to display text.

For more information, see Settings defining how elements are displayed on screen.