Silkscreen for writing on

I am trying to make a small silkscreen I can write on with a sharpy, etc. My first try was just making a square on the F.Silkscreen layer but that did not work. Next I tried to make a ‘filled zone’ on the F.Silkscreen layer, but that also does not work.

Works for me:

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Selected F.Silkscreen as the drawing layer from the top dropdown. Selected Filled Zone tool. Click starting point. Confirm OK. Draw closed polygon. Hatched border appears. Fill with b hotkey. Done.

Yes I just did that also.

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I used the rectangle tool on the front silkscreen layer.

Did you make boards and the area is missing? Describe the failure???

Either you did it wrong or you are using a very old version of KiCad . . . by the way, what version are you using, you didn’t say ?

Can you paste your version info here please, you can get it from KiCad > Help > About KiCad > Copy Version Info
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I was doing it wrong and figured it our from the reply from retiredfeline. Thanks for all the replies.