In a recent blog post over the Google Docs Blog, it was announced that Google’s online and collaborative document editor has been injected with a dose of creativity via a new Drawing mode.

It’s easy to create drawings using lines, free hand scribbles, text labels and a large choice of shapes that you can move, resize, rotate and adjust. Group, order, align and distribute and other features are available when you select objects you’ve drawn. You can also customize a range of shape properties, from line widths to fill color, and from arrowheads to font size, and much more. If you change your mind, there is undo and redo. You can collaborate with a friend or colleague on a drawing, or work alone, just as you can in Google Docs today.

The tech came from Tonic Systems, which Google managed to acquire in 2007.