diff --git a/src/components/Canvas/hooks/useKonvaTransformer.ts b/src/components/Canvas/hooks/useKonvaTransformer.ts
index ac492fe6..1c8f1de6 100644
--- a/src/components/Canvas/hooks/useKonvaTransformer.ts
+++ b/src/components/Canvas/hooks/useKonvaTransformer.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import {
   snapBoxHeight,
   pinBottomEdge,
   isTopAnchorResize,
+  transformNodeTopLeft,
+  positionDidMove,
   type BoundingBox,
 } from "../transformerGeometry";
 
@@ -130,6 +132,7 @@ export function useKonvaTransformer({
     if (!node) return;
     const sx = node.scaleX();
     const sy = node.scaleY();
+    const nodeWidth = node.width();
     const nodeHeight = node.height();
     node.scaleX(1);
     node.scaleY(1);
@@ -138,9 +141,24 @@ export function useKonvaTransformer({
       transformAnchorRef.current = null;
       return;
     }
+    const isCenterAnchored = ObjectRegistry[obj.type]?.nodeOrigin === "center";
+    const topLeft = transformNodeTopLeft(
+      node.x(),
+      node.y(),
+      nodeWidth,
+      nodeHeight,
+      sx,
+      sy,
+      isCenterAnchored,
+    );
+    const rawX = pxToDots(topLeft.x - objectsOffsetX, scale, dpmm);
+    const rawY = pxToDots(topLeft.y - labelOffsetY, scale, dpmm);
+    // Only apply snap to the position when the resize actually moved it
+    // (e.g. dragging the top-left handle). Anchored-corner drags must keep
+    // the original position so off-grid shapes don't snap as a side-effect.
     const pos = {
-      x: snap(pxToDots(node.x() - objectsOffsetX, scale, dpmm)),
-      y: snap(pxToDots(node.y() - labelOffsetY, scale, dpmm)),
+      x: positionDidMove(rawX, obj.x) ? snap(rawX) : obj.x,
+      y: positionDidMove(rawY, obj.y) ? snap(rawY) : obj.y,
     };
     const commit = ObjectRegistry[obj.type]?.commitTransform;
     if (commit) {
diff --git a/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.test.ts b/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.test.ts
index 1aee1121..044d8c5a 100644
--- a/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.test.ts
+++ b/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.test.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import {
   snapBoxHeight,
   pinBottomEdge,
   isTopAnchorResize,
+  transformNodeTopLeft,
+  positionDidMove,
 } from "./transformerGeometry";
 
 describe("snapBoxHeight", () => {
@@ -55,3 +57,39 @@ describe("isTopAnchorResize", () => {
     expect(isTopAnchorResize(oldBox, { ...oldBox, height: 80 }, 1)).toBe(false);
   });
 });
+
+describe("transformNodeTopLeft", () => {
+  it("passes top-left-anchored nodes through unchanged", () => {
+    // Rect / Image / Text use their top-left as the Konva origin.
+    const result = transformNodeTopLeft(100, 50, 200, 100, 1.5, 1, false);
+    expect(result).toEqual({ x: 100, y: 50 });
+  });
+
+  it("subtracts half the visual size for center-anchored nodes (Ellipse)", () => {
+    // Ellipse with intrinsic size 100x80, scaled 2x in both axes.
+    // node.x()/y() are the center; visual radius = nodeSize * scale / 2.
+    const result = transformNodeTopLeft(200, 100, 100, 80, 2, 2, true);
+    expect(result).toEqual({ x: 100, y: 20 });
+  });
+
+  it("uses the captured (pre-reset) node size, not the post-reset one", () => {
+    // Even when scale is no longer 1 conceptually, the formula uses the
+    // intrinsic nodeWidth/nodeHeight times the scale to derive visual size.
+    const result = transformNodeTopLeft(150, 150, 50, 50, 4, 4, true);
+    expect(result.x).toBe(50); // 150 - (50 * 4) / 2 = 150 - 100
+    expect(result.y).toBe(50);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("positionDidMove", () => {
+  it("returns false when the position matches within the tolerance", () => {
+    expect(positionDidMove(100, 100)).toBe(false);
+    expect(positionDidMove(100.4, 100)).toBe(false);
+    expect(positionDidMove(99, 100)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("returns true once the delta exceeds the tolerance", () => {
+    expect(positionDidMove(102, 100)).toBe(true);
+    expect(positionDidMove(80, 100)).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.ts b/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.ts
index d5ac1203..1d554c03 100644
--- a/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.ts
+++ b/src/components/Canvas/transformerGeometry.ts
@@ -32,3 +32,44 @@ export function isTopAnchorResize(
 ): boolean {
   return Math.abs(newBox.y - oldBox.y) > thresholdPx;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Translate a transformed Konva node's coordinate into the model's top-left
+ * stage-pixel coordinate. Konva's Ellipse positions by its center; everything
+ * else by top-left. The visual size after a Transformer drag is `nodeSize * s`
+ * (full width / height): the node's intrinsic size is unchanged at this point,
+ * so only the scale captured before reset reflects the post-drag dimensions.
+ */
+export function transformNodeTopLeft(
+  nodeX: number,
+  nodeY: number,
+  nodeWidth: number,
+  nodeHeight: number,
+  sx: number,
+  sy: number,
+  isCenterAnchored: boolean,
+): { x: number; y: number } {
+  const dx = isCenterAnchored ? (nodeWidth * sx) / 2 : 0;
+  const dy = isCenterAnchored ? (nodeHeight * sy) / 2 : 0;
+  return { x: nodeX - dx, y: nodeY - dy };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Tolerance for `positionDidMove`. Sized to absorb float rounding from the
+ * screen-pixel <-> dot conversion; anything within this margin counts as
+ * "did not move" so the original integer position is preserved.
+ */
+export const POSITION_MOVE_TOLERANCE_DOTS = 1;
+
+/**
+ * Decide whether the resize actually moved the object. When the user drags
+ * a handle whose opposite anchor is the top-left, the position is visually
+ * unchanged. Without this guard, applying snap to it would pull off-grid
+ * shapes onto the grid as a side-effect of resizing.
+ */
+export function positionDidMove(
+  rawDots: number,
+  previousDots: number,
+): boolean {
+  return Math.abs(rawDots - previousDots) > POSITION_MOVE_TOLERANCE_DOTS;
+}
diff --git a/src/registry/ellipse.tsx b/src/registry/ellipse.tsx
index 7da85f95..3cd4d427 100644
--- a/src/registry/ellipse.tsx
+++ b/src/registry/ellipse.tsx
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export const ellipse: ObjectTypeDefinition<EllipseProps> = {
     color: 'B',
   },
   defaultSize: { width: 150, height: 100 },
+  nodeOrigin: 'center',
 
   commitTransform: commitWidthHeightTransform,
 
diff --git a/src/types/ObjectType.ts b/src/types/ObjectType.ts
index 62b60aa0..9149b665 100644
--- a/src/types/ObjectType.ts
+++ b/src/types/ObjectType.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ export interface ObjectTypeDefinition<P extends object = object> {
   group: ObjectGroup;
   defaultProps: P;
   defaultSize: { width: number; height: number };
+  /**
+   * Origin of the Konva node used to render this type. Defaults to 'top-left'.
+   * Set to 'center' for shapes whose Konva counterpart positions by their
+   * center (e.g. Ellipse), so the transformer can convert the node coordinate
+   * back to the model's top-left convention.
+   */
+  nodeOrigin?: 'center' | 'top-left';
   toZPL: (obj: LabelObjectBase & { props: P }) => string;
   /**
    * Optional hook to enforce type-specific invariants on incoming changes