"Sketch" and "Draw" annotation tools are white in Preview.

[Luna Murasaki]

My dad has these PDFs he downloads for his investing research, and he likes to use the annotation tools on them with Apple Preview. He has come to me complaining that recently, anything he draws with the "Sketch" and "Draw" tools is white in color, which makes it impossible to see as the background is also white.

I have never done this with Preview before myself - I just use it to view things. I notice there is an option to change the color of shapes, but not of Sketch/Draw. On my own Mac, using these tools has them coming out black and perfectly usable. Does anyone know why his are coming out white and how I can get them to be black like on my own Mac?

I'm grateful for any help anyone is willing to give us.

 

[Furka]

You can choose the color in the bar of tools.

 

[Peadogie]

As @Furka said you can use the Markup Toolbar (Shift+Command+A) to choose the Sketch and Draw tools color:

Thought this screenshot might help. 😁

 

[Luna Murasaki]

I'd love to be able to give a piece of my mind to whoever came up with the idea of replacing clear, detailed toolbar button graphics and occasional textual labels with tiny, obscure glyphs like this! 😠 I guess my brain automatically discounted it because it looked like something still related to shapes.

Thank you both so much! 😀