Scope toggles
Decide whether an edit changes every format, or just the one you're on.
Every setting in the inspector has a scope: it applies to every format, or to just the one you're looking at. A small chip beside the label names which.
The chip marks the exception
At rest you only see chips on settings that deviate: a blue chip with the format name (for example 1x1) means you gave this format its own value. Everything else is quiet. Hover a field (or tab into it) and its chip appears, so you can read the scope or change it.
| Chip | What it means |
|---|---|
ALL (outline) |
Applies to every format. Editing it changes the shared value. |
Format name, gray (e.g. 1x1) |
Naturally varies per format (position, size, font size). Shown on hover only. |
| Format name, blue | You chose to override this on this format. Always shown. |
Hover a chip for a plain-language explanation of the state and what clicking it will do. Clicking toggles the scope: a shared value gets a format-only copy you can then change freely, and a format-only value is discarded so the shared one takes over again.
For sizing fields such as Leading (line height), hover the field, click the gray format chip (for example 4x5) so it changes to ALL, then enter the new value. If another aspect ratio already has its own format chip, that deliberate override still wins there; switch to that ratio and click its chip back to ALL as well if you want every existing override removed.
Why it's useful
A headline at 80px on the square might need to be 64px on the story to fit. Hover the Size field, click its chip so it shows the format name in blue, make your change, and it lands on the story only. Switch back to the square and the headline is still 80px.
Copy budgets (min/target/max characters) stay on ALL by design: copy is written once and lands on every format, so the budget is one number for the whole template. Give a single format its own budget only when that ratio genuinely needs different copy.
Treatments like Knockout and the Inverted surface choice scope the same way: usually shared across formats, but overridable per format — e.g. an element that sits on a contrast card only in the story layout can be Inverted on 9:16 alone.
Resetting
Hover a setting that carries a value and a small reset arrow appears beside its label. Reset on a blue chip drops the per-format override. Reset on an ALL chip clears the shared value and falls back to your brand.
When an element has real per-format overrides, a dot lights up on the format tab and on the layer, and the element's header in the inspector shows a blue chip with the format name and the count (16x9 · 3). Hover it to see which settings, and to reset every override on that format in one go.