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The templates loaded a documentary photography style that compiles to "photography, naturalistic lighting, deep focus, RAW-like" — close to what SDXL produces unprompted — so the first queue looked like the nodes had done nothing, and the demo subjects were unrelated scenery on top of that. Load Renaissance Mythic Classicism instead: tempera-on-panel technique and a muted Renaissance palette, unmistakable against a base render, with no typography for the sampler to turn into gibberish and no subject it rules out. Subjects are now concrete everyday scenes carrying no style words of their own. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# StyleRef nodes for ComfyUI
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Define a creative style once on [StyleRef](https://styleref.io) — colors,
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lighting, mood, composition, guardrails — then load it as a node and reuse it
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across FLUX, SDXL, SD1.5, and natural-language targets.
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The style is compiled server-side for whichever model you point it at, so the
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same style produces prompt text phrased appropriately for each one.
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**No account needed** to load and apply public gallery styles. An account adds
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your own private styles. **Nothing in this plugin spends credits.**
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---
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## Install
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**ComfyUI Manager** (recommended) — search for **StyleRef** and click Install.
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**Manually:**
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```bash
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cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
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git clone https://github.com/StyleRef/styleref-comfyui
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```
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Restart ComfyUI. No dependencies to install — the pack uses only the Python
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standard library. Look for `[StyleRef] v0.1.0 — 5 nodes registered` in the
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server console at startup.
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## 60-second quickstart
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1. Add **StyleRef Load** and paste a slug from the
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[gallery](https://styleref.io/gallery) into `style_ref` (try
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`sbdlwwly-66ae1a89efdc`, the Renaissance Mythic Classicism style) — or
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click **Search styles…** to pick one.
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2. Add **StyleRef Apply**, connect `style`, type a subject, pick your target.
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3. Wire `positive` / `negative` into your CLIP Text Encode nodes.
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Or drag [`workflows/01-quickstart.json`](workflows/01-quickstart.json) onto the
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canvas.
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## Nodes
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| Node | Sign-in | What it does |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| **StyleRef Load** | No | Fetch a style by share slug or share URL — and, signed in, your own private styles by id or `/styles/{id}` URL. Includes gallery search with a picker dialog and a ↻ Refresh button. |
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| **StyleRef Apply** | No | Compose a subject with a style into `positive` / `negative` prompts for a chosen target, with a prompt preview in the node body. |
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| **StyleRef Facets** | No | Every schema section as its own output — exactly the style board's section list, plus the six custom style items. |
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| **StyleRef Reference Images** | No | The style's inspiration images as an IMAGE batch — for IPAdapter and reference conditioning. |
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| **StyleRef Login** | — | Status line + Sign in / Sign out buttons. Needed only to load your own private styles. |
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### Targets
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`ai_tools`, `style_md`, `flux`, `midjourney`, `diffusion`, `json` — exactly the
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web app's copy-box format list. For the sampler in your graph use `flux` (FLUX
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models) or `diffusion` (SDXL, SD1.5, DALL·E-class); the other four are for
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copying the output out of ComfyUI, and the node warns if one feeds a CLIP
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encoder.
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### Making your own styles
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Extraction (turning an image into a style) happens on
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[styleref.io](https://styleref.io) — upload an image there, refine the result,
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and it lands in your library. Load it here by its share slug or id
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(sign in with the Login node first).
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## Workflow templates
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| File | Sign-in | Story |
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| [`01-quickstart.json`](workflows/01-quickstart.json) | No | Load → Apply → generate |
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| [`02-consistency-grid.json`](workflows/02-consistency-grid.json) | No | One style, three subjects, side by side |
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| [`03-your-own-style.json`](workflows/03-your-own-style.json) | Yes | Extract on the web, load your own style here |
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| [`04-facets.json`](workflows/04-facets.json) | No | Every section of the style as its own output, next to a normal render |
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A parallel set wired for **Z-Image Turbo** (an S3-DiT model — UNET + Qwen text
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encoder + VAE, compiled from the `diffusion` target) lives in
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[`workflows/z-image/`](workflows/z-image): the same quickstart, consistency,
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your-own-style and facets stories, plus a reference-images demo. The three
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model files download on first run.
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**Z-Image takes no negative prompt.** It runs without classifier-free guidance,
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so the Z-Image templates carry no negative encoder — the sampler's negative
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input gets a zeroed conditioning, as in a FLUX graph. StyleRef still compiles
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the negative and previews it on the canvas; fold anything you need from it into
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`subject` on Apply as a positive phrase. Raising CFG does not bring it back.
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## Signing in
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Add the **StyleRef Login** node and click **Sign in (browser)** — no queueing
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needed. Your browser opens, you approve, and the node's status flips to signed
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in. The token is stored at `~/.config/styleref/credentials.json` with `0600`
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permissions. The [`styleref` CLI](https://www.npmjs.com/package/styleref)
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shares this login.
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(No frontend at all? `npx styleref login` signs in the same credentials file,
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and queueing the Login node reports the current status.)
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### Running ComfyUI on a remote or headless machine
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Browser sign-in **cannot** work on a rented GPU box, RunPod, or any headless
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server: there is no browser to open, and `localhost` is the wrong machine. Use a
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token instead:
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1. Copy a token from your [account page](https://styleref.io/account).
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2. Where ComfyUI runs, set `STYLEREF_TOKEN=<token>`
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3. Restart ComfyUI.
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`STYLEREF_TOKEN` always takes precedence over stored credentials. The Login node
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detects the headless case and prints these instructions rather than hanging.
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## Credits
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**Nothing in this plugin spends credits.** Loading, searching, and applying
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styles is free and unlimited within the public rate limit. Extraction — the one
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paid action — happens on [styleref.io](https://styleref.io), where you can
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preview and refine the result before it costs anything beyond the extraction
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itself. See [plans and limits](https://docs.styleref.io/using-styleref/plans-and-limits).
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## Configuration
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| Variable | Purpose |
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| `STYLEREF_TOKEN` | Bearer token; overrides stored credentials. The headless path. |
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| `STYLEREF_API` | API base URL. Defaults to `https://styleref.io/api/v1`. |
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| `STYLEREF_FORCE_BROWSER_LOGIN` | `1` forces browser login, `0` forces the token path. |
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## Development
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```bash
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pip install pytest ruff pillow numpy # pillow/numpy are test-only deps
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pytest tests/ -q
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ruff check .
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python scripts/build_workflows.py # regenerate workflow templates
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```
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The workflow templates are generated — edit
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[`scripts/build_workflows.py`](scripts/build_workflows.py), not the JSON.
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The nodes are a thin client over StyleRef's public
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[REST API v1](https://docs.styleref.io/for-ai-agents/rest-api/overview-and-authentication)
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([OpenAPI](https://styleref.io/api/v1/openapi.json)). All prompt compilation
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happens server-side — this pack never writes style prose itself, so improvements
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to StyleRef's compiler reach you without a plugin update.
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## Docs & support
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- [ComfyUI connector docs](https://docs.styleref.io/connectors/comfyui/install-and-quickstart)
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- [Issues](https://github.com/StyleRef/styleref-comfyui/issues)
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## License
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MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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