Shelf Palette

The Shelf palette and the controls that can be found on it are described in the table below. When controls also bring up additional dialogs, these are referenced for more information.

What It Does

The Shelf stores sets of brushes, colors, and images. These include:

• Menu shelf - items that you can select from the F9 pie selection control menu.

• Personal shelf (with customized items) - selected items you use regularly.

• Mari Materials - a set of predefined materials based on the Principled BRDF shader model. See Managing Materials in Mari for more information.

• Basic Brushes shelf - a set of predefined basic brushes.

• Hard Surface Brushes shelf - a set of predefined hard surface brushes.

• Organic Brushes shelf - a set of predefined organic brushes.

• Brad's New Brushes - a set of predefined brushes.

• Project - shelf items for just the current project.

Note:  To load Mari without the Mari Materials, Basic Brushes, Hard Surface Brushes, Organic Brushes, and Brad's New Brushes preset shelves, disable the Edit > Preferences > Misc. > Shelf > Shelves Include Presets preference. See Mari Preferences Dialog.

Shelf Palette Fields

Control	What it does	Notes
Types of Controls	Select from shelves, click icons to add new shelf, spawn floating shelves, delete custom shelves.	Mari saves shelves as .msh files, and items within shelves (which you can save through a right-click option) as .msi files or .mma files. Right-click to toggle icon size (for example, to use smaller icons to create color swatches).