CoaMaker Changelog

May 14th, 2026: CoaMaker 2.0

This update has many huge changes. Please report any bugs you find so that we can fix as soon as possible. Thank you!

Foundation & look

• New canvas engine — faster, more stable, and the foundation for everything below.
• Castle Stone restyling: new color tokens, red primary buttons, clearer button hierarchy, consistent panel padding.
• Sidebar navigation prioritized in desktop. No tabs eating up space in the panels anymore.
• Dark mode added and set as the default; light/dark toggle available.
• Many tooltips now show keyboard shortcuts.
• Tutorials redesigned.

Mobile & touch

• Complete update of the navigation in mobile. Menus are now nested. You can go back by clicking “Back”. 
• Panels and controls now display below the canvas and don’t overlap it anymore. Clicking on Back closes the panels and restores full size of canvas. Double-tapping outside closes panels, too.
• Mobile color picker opens in a bottom panel instead of a floating popover, with drill-down navigation, gradient touch support, and ermine controls.
• Mobile multi-select with a lasso icon and pinned toolbar.
• Touch scrolling works properly on sliders and panels.
• Major UX adjustments for tablets, especially landscape view.

Custom shields

• Re-ordered the UI for custom shields so that editing them feels more intuitive.
• Shield button added to the toolbar that appears when a custom shield is clicked. It becomes easier to adjust ist.
• Elements can be dragged into a custom shield in layer view. Charges that are child of such a shield are cut off at the edges of the shield.

Colors, gradients & patterns

• The color swatches now open a color panel that divides all tinctures into metals, colors, furs, and other colors. This makes it easier to follow the rule of tincture (no metal on metal, no color on color).
• Stripe pattern system for charges, with preview swatches that follow the charge orientation. Parts of symbols can now be filled with stripes. The color, number, and orientation of the stripes can be set.
• Ermine introduced as color. Parts of a charge can now be colored in ermine. The user can pick ermine spots, set the colors for spot and background.
• Ermine, stripes, and gradients are listed in the used colors for easy transfer to other elements.
• Countercharge: Parts of a charge that has been dragged into a custom shield in the layer view, can be assigned the countercharge tinctures in the Color Panel. This will divide the color along the parent shields divisions and give the parts of the charge the opposing colors (only works with two colors).
• Used Colors panel: recolor all instances of any color, gradient or pattern already on the canvas in one single step.
• New UI for color families.

Text

• Some old texts will break, especially the old curved text, I am sorry. I hope that the many new options will compensate for the extra work you will have with some save files.
• New Curved Text added on the canvas itself (text following an arc, with body drag, inline editing, hover cursors, click-to-position cursor). This allows much better positioning.
• Ring Text added (text laid around a circle, edited on-canvas).

Cropping

• On-canvas polygon crop with toolbar controls and a bounding rectangle overlay.
• Split mode added that allows to keep inside and outside of cropping selection as separate elements.
• Vertical and horizontal split-crop modes.
• Zoom-aware handles that stay easy to grab at any zoom level.

Uploads

• Folders with drag-and-drop, multi-select, search, rename, bulk download, grid/list view toggle, per-symbol edit and download.
• Folder rename/delete moved to the breadcrumb.
• Storage increased — the 1 MB size cap is gone.
• Improved flow for uploading images. The Uploads button allows to bulk import images. After that, you can transform pixel images into vectors or assign colors to vectors shapes in an editor.

Saving, export & loading

• Autosave improved, so much larger designs are backed up safely.
• Export button merged into the toolbar (includes Print, Share, etc.)