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Shapes

Basics​

You can declare shapes like so:

imAShapeim_a_shapeim a shapei'm a shapea-shape

You can also use semicolons to define multiple shapes on the same line:

By default, a shape's label is the same as the shape's key. But if you want it to be different, assign a new label like so:

By default, a shape's type is rectangle. To specify otherwise, provide the field shape:

Example​

PostgreSQLmy cloudSQLiteCassandra
info

Keys are case-insensitive, so postgresql and postgreSQL will reference the same shape.

Shape catalog
rectanglesquarepageparallelogramdocumentcylinderqueuepackagestepcalloutstored_datapersondiamondovalcirclehexagoncloudc4-person

There are other values that shape can take, but they're special types that are covered in the next section.

1:1 Ratio shapes​

Some shapes maintain a 1:1 aspect ratio, meaning their width and height are always equal.

  • circle
  • square

For these shapes, if you have a long label that make the shape wider, D2 will also make the shape taller to maintain the 1:1 ratio.

If you manually set width and height on a 1:1 ratio shape, both dimensions will be set to the larger of the two values to maintain the aspect ratio.

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