# Measure any angle with Measure Tool?

**URL:** <https://krita-artists.org/t/measure-any-angle-with-measure-tool/5809>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 11:09am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/measure-any-angle-with-measure-tool/5809 "2020-04-21T11:09:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Y.H.Lai](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/y.h.lai/32/231491_2.png) [@Y.H.Lai](https://krita-artists.org/u/Y.H.Lai)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 11:09am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/measure-any-angle-with-measure-tool/5809/1 "2020-04-21T11:09:24Z")

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![image](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/2X/7/79ce07598b6958d7d9b21ae0c4c33bf940581cbf.png)

For now the measure tool can only measure the angle between a line and the horizontal. To measure arbitrary angles we need to measure twice and do the math. How about a measure tool that can measure any angle?

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**Author:** ![AhabGreybeard](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/ahabgreybeard/32/2969_2.png) [@AhabGreybeard](https://krita-artists.org/u/AhabGreybeard)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/measure-any-angle-with-measure-tool/5809/2 "2020-04-21T12:32:07Z")

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I’d suggest click-hold-drag to get the first line (with standard measurement output in the Tool Options). Then keeping the click-hold, press a modifier key such as Ctrl which will register the vertex, then drag to the end of the second line and the Tool Options shows the angle between them (and maybe the length of the second line).

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**Author:** ![Jacob\_Thuotte](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/jacob_thuotte/32/82641_2.png) [@Jacob\_Thuotte](https://krita-artists.org/u/Jacob_Thuotte)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/measure-any-angle-with-measure-tool/5809/3 "2023-06-21T02:48:30Z")

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i need this aswell

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**Author:** ![eishiya](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/eishiya/32/50194_2.png) [@eishiya](https://krita-artists.org/u/eishiya)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/measure-any-angle-with-measure-tool/5809/4 "2026-10-06T22:17:25Z")

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I rarely need this, but when I do, not having it really hurts because the angles I need to measure are often unusual, not so easy to add/subtract in my head. Doing the maths is made more challenging by the fact that Krita measures from the nearest horizontal, so when dealing with angles on both sides of a vertical (which includes any obtuse angle), there are additional calculations.