Then I clicked the Lucidchart toolbar’s Line Color icon (which resembles a pen) and selected the blank color swatch. Selecting that box was tricky my approach was to slowly begin dragging a selection box up from the below, just until the lower box was selected.

Removed the border from the bottom-right box.

This was done by keeping the box selected, clicking the paintbucket icon in Lucidchart’s toolbar, and choosing the blank color swatch (usually the top-left swatch, displaying a subtle checkboard panel).

Removed the background from that top-left box.

I simply double-clicked the box and, upon seeing a blinking cursor, started typing. With my new box directly atop my original box, I held down Shift while tapping the left-arrow and up-arrow, four times each. I then hit the up-arrow key, then the left-arrow key, once each. To do this, I selected the new box (which was offset down and to the right by default).

Offset the new box (which was now the topmost z-indexed item) up and to the left by about four pixels each.

In Lucidchart, this is done using the your standard keyboard controls, or Lucidchart’s Edit menu. So I thought, what if I simply created two boxes: a border box, and a background box? To do this, I did the following:

Part of the background may overflow the border. More often than not, the shading doesn’t perfectly fill the background. Then we’ll shade in the background (with, say, a blue pencil). We’ll typically draw the rectangular border (maybe with a black pen or pencil).

But when we sketch things in real life, they don’t look perfect. That’s great if you want it to look perfect. Lucidchart then draws a border around the box, and fills it. In other words, when I create a box in Lucidchart, I define the origin and dimensions of the box, either by dragging with my mouse or by entering the values in a dialog. I first thought about what makes something look hand-sketched or, rather, what makes something look not hand-sketched. So I decided to head into Lucidchart to see what I could do there. Plus, I paid the sixty bucks up front for my Lucidchart subscription, dammit! It’s actually really simply Relying on myself to find an old paper copy of a drawing? Well, good luck with that! And there have been times where I’d needed to pull up an old diagram from months back. I also like to reuse diagrams, perhaps with minor modifications. For example, I tend to edit my diagrams nearly as often as I make edits to my articles.

I’m an okay artist, but I could not produce a decent-looking hand sketch of boxes and arrows at all.Īnd even if it had worked, it wouldn’t have seemed like a very scalable solution. It took awhile, but I finally wound up with… an absolute mess. Literally, I grabbed a piece of white paper and a bunch of colored pencils, and began sketching. So I tried that approach for my next article. I’d seen such approaches in other articles, and - to me, at least - they really add something. What I was after was more of an organic, hand-sketched look. Even the theme selector that it offers really just allows you to toggle between color combinations. It’s not made for injecting personality - or any levity at all, really - into diagrams. Lucidchart offers a lot of shapes and tools, but it is really oriented towards getting the job done. We are thrilled to have our platform included in the FedRAMP marketplace, and look forward to helping federal agencies improve how they work and collaborate.It gets the point across, but it’s kind of impersonal, no? 'Organizations in virtually every industry are looking to Lucid's Visual Collaboration Suite to align around a shared vision, clarify complexity and collaborate visually with each other from any location, and government teams are no exception. 'This milestone is a welcome validation for both the security of our platform and the demand for visual collaboration solutions that exist within the government,' said Dave Grow, CEO of Lucid. The program administers a marketplace of approved providers to increase the use of cloud services and facilitate digital transformation across government agencies.

FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services, with a goal to protect US citizen data in the cloud. Working with the DEA to coordinate progress with the FedRAMP Program Management Office, Lucid has completed all preparatory steps for the authorization process.

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