The calligraphy tool is using the 2nd color (default white) instead of the 1st color (default black). I understand this is probably due to the fact that it's producing a sort of "shape fill", which typically use 2nd color. But in the usecase of this tool which is to draw lines, it would be much more logical to have it using the 1st color.
I've tried to fix that before... It might actually be already preset as a bug against karbon. But I've failed to find out where the code takes its colors from!
KarbonCalligraphyTool.cpp line 103
Git commit 0795d705c7943aacae9390eaa50be475888d0a7a by Sven Langkamp. Committed on 23/01/2013 at 18:13. Pushed by langkamp into branch 'master'. use cross cursor and foreground color in calligraphy tool Related: bug 313634 REVIEW:108562 M +2 -2 karbon/plugins/tools/CalligraphyTool/KarbonCalligraphyTool.cpp http://commits.kde.org/calligra/0795d705c7943aacae9390eaa50be475888d0a7a