The whiteboards are much worse than before.
planned
Caíque Simiele
Whiteboards look much worse and more amateurish than before.
- We've lost control over font size, separate from the shape.
- We've lost bold, italic, and font variety.
- We've lost solid shape fill.
- We've lost organic arrows.
There's more, but this is what's annoying the most.
How could they do this?
Despite this, it crashes less and is faster. But design trade-offs are unacceptable, in my opinion.
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Alex Omeyer (ClickUp)
Hey, Alex here — new PM for Whiteboards. Wanted to come back to you with an update since a lot has shifted since your post. (1) Rich text: shipped. Bold, italic, strikethrough, bullet and numbered lists all work in text boxes, sticky notes, and shape labels (CMD+B/I or the formatting toolbar). (2) Granular font sizing: coming, rolling out after our tldraw framework update later this month. (3) Solid shape fill: shipped — you can set fill color on shapes from the style panel. (4) Hand-drawn arrows: you can still draw arrows, they render a bit differently now. The organic sketch look isn't back, but arrows themselves are fully supported. Hope this helps — keep the feedback coming.
Zach - ClickUp
updated the status to
planned
Hey Caíque!
Totally hear ya
- We want this too. It will be done, just not immediately.
- You can use rich text by using hotkeys like CMD+B for bold. We still need to add it to our menus though
- Same as point one. We will fix this.
- What do you mean by organic arrows?
Thank you for the feedback, we deeply appreciate it
Caíque Simiele
Heyy Zach - ClickUp
Thank you for your attention here. This is really special and stands out.
By organic arrows, I meant those that look hand-drawn on the board, giving a lighter and more natural feel to the visuals. Take a look at the image from the old model.
To wrap up our project, I had to move my whiteboard work over to Canva. But I truly believe it will soon be appealing to come back to ClickUp — it would be great to return.
I believe it’s worth investing in your whiteboard system. Visual resources will continue to gain even greater importance.
What we expect and look for in a whiteboard is freedom.
It stops making sense when the restrictions stand out.
I’m also attaching my project on Canva for your reference.
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