About Bone Widget

Bone Widget is a Blender add-on that assists with creating custom bone shapes. It includes an editable library containing many pre‑made shapes and allows users to add their own shapes for reuse across rigs. Starting with version 2.2, the add‑on also manages bone colors in Pose Mode and, if enabled in user preferences, in Edit Mode. It works with Blender’s predefined Bone Color Sets as well as custom colors, and can display different colors for Pose and Edit modes. The add‑on is distributed under the GNU GPL v3.0 or later and is compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer. A demo video is available on the Blender Extensions platform.

Features

• Editable shape library that ships with many pre-made shapes and accepts your own additions
• Auto-Render option that renders the object as a wireframe image and saves it to the add-on data location
• Use Placeholder option that applies a placeholder image instead
• Bone color management for Pose bone widgets, with an optional user preference to also change Edit Mode colors (disabled by default)
• Add Preset from Theme, pulling colors from the custom color palette
• Add Preset from Bone, using the colors from the active bone
• Apply any of Blender’s default color themes from a pop-up menu or set your own custom color

Best for

Blender riggers who need reusable custom bone shapes and flexible bone‑color control.