You can customize the appearance of individual features like placemarks, lines,
and polygons within your Google Earth projects. This lets you highlight
important locations, categorize features, and enhance the visual storytelling of
your map project.

This page focuses on styling features you add or draw directly in your project.
To learn how to style large datasets imported as layers, see [Style data
layers](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/earth/style-data-layers).

## Edit feature styles

1. On your computer, open [Google
   Earth](https://earth.google.com/).
2. Open the project containing the feature you want to style.
3. Select the feature on the map or in the map contents panel on the left.
4. Click the **Edit** icon that appears next to the feature name or in the inspector panel.
5. The edit panel will display options for changing the feature's style, in addition to adding descriptions and media.

## Style placemarks

In the edit panel for a placemark, you can adjust:

- **Icon size:** Choose from presets like Small, Medium, Large.
- **Icon color:** Click **Choose color** to select a different color for the icon.
- **Icon type:** Click the current icon to choose from a library of icons. Click **More icons** for an expanded gallery.
- **Custom icon:** Click **Upload custom icon** to use your own image (JPG or PNG).
- **Label style:** Click **More settings** to modify the label's text color, size, and visibility.

## Style lines and polygons

In the edit panel for lines or polygons, you can adjust:

- **Stroke/outline color:** Change the color of the line or the border of the polygon.
- **Stroke/outline width:** Adjust the thickness of the line or border.
- **Fill color (Polygons only):** Change the interior fill color.
- **Fill opacity (Polygons only):** Adjust the transparency of the fill.
- **Label style:** Click **More settings** to modify the label's text color, size, and visibility (if a label is present).

## Bulk styling

You can select and apply style changes to multiple features (such as placemarks,
lines, and polygons) at once:

1. Select multiple features using either of the following methods:
   - **On the map:** In the top toolbar, click ink_selection **Select
     features** (or click **Edit** select_check_box **Select
     features** , or press **Ctrl+Shift+A** on Windows and Linux or **Cmd+Shift+A** on Mac), then click and drag a selection box around the features on the map.
     - *If screen-centered drawing tools are enabled (or on mobile):* Pan the map to position the crosshairs at the first corner and select **+ Add point** , then pan the map to expand the selection box and select **Done** (on mobile or smaller screens, select **Finish** to complete the box, then select **Done** to save the selection).
   - **In the map contents panel:** Select multiple features using **Shift-click** or **Ctrl-click** (**Cmd-click** on Mac), click and drag across features, or click **More** select_check_box **Select
     features** to select features using checkboxes.
2. Click **Edit** in the inspector panel to change common style properties (for example, color, opacity, or icon size) for all selected features simultaneously.

## Other feature properties

Beyond visual styles, you can also:

- **Add descriptions and media:** Click **+ Description** or **+ Media** in the edit panel to add text, photos, and videos to your features.
- **Change visibility:** Use the / icon next to the feature name in the map contents panel to show or hide it.
- **Reorder features:** Drag features within the list in the map contents panel to change their order in the list. Note that this does not change their drawing order on the map.
- **Capture map view:** Adjust the map view (zoom, tilt) to your liking, then click **Capture view** in the feature's edit panel to save that specific view with the feature.

Your changes are saved automatically to your Google Drive project.