BehzadandClaude Sonnet 5
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The Renaissance style carries no guardrails, so it compiles an empty negative, and Z-Image has no negative channel to put one in either. A style steeped in classical painting therefore drifts to classical nudes on a neutral subject — which is a poor look for a first-run demo and for the screenshots people take of it. Positive phrasing in the subject is the only lever either model leaves, so two of the three subjects now say so outright. The grid also reads better: a dusk exterior, an interior, and an object with no figure at all is a wider spread than three peopled scenes, and it makes the "one style, unrelated subjects" claim harder to argue with. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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StyleRef nodes for ComfyUI
Define a creative style once on StyleRef — colors, lighting, mood, composition, guardrails — then load it as a node and reuse it across your workflows.
Every frame on the right is the same style, a different subject.
The style is compiled server-side for whichever model you point it at, so the same style produces prompt text phrased appropriately for each one.
No account needed to load and apply public gallery styles. An account adds your own private styles. Nothing in this node pack spends credits.
Install
ComfyUI Manager (recommended) — search for StyleRef and click Install.
Manually:
cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/StyleRef/styleref-comfyui
Restart ComfyUI. No dependencies to install — the pack uses only the Python
standard library. Look for [StyleRef] v1.0.4 — 5 nodes registered in the
server console at startup.
60-second quickstart
- Add StyleRef Load and paste a slug from the
gallery into
style_ref(try72e1zdae-e2d54a18d090, the Noir Low-Key Portrait style) — or click Search styles… to pick one. - Add StyleRef Apply, connect
style, type a subject, pick your target. - Wire
positive/negativeinto your CLIP Text Encode nodes.
Or drag workflows/01-quickstart.json onto the
canvas.
Nodes
| Node | Sign-in | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Names the loaded style on the node, plus gallery search with a picker dialog and a ↻ Refresh button. |
| 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. |
| StyleRef Facets | No | Every schema section as its own output — exactly the style board's section list, plus the six custom style items. |
| StyleRef Reference Images | No | The style's inspiration images as an IMAGE batch — for IPAdapter and reference conditioning. |
| StyleRef Login | — | Status line + Sign in / Sign out buttons. Needed only to load your own private styles. |
Targets
ai_tools, style_md, flux, midjourney, diffusion, json — exactly the
web app's copy-box format list. For the sampler in your graph use flux (FLUX
models) or diffusion (SDXL, SD1.5, DALL·E-class); the other four are for
copying the output out of ComfyUI, and the node warns if one feeds a CLIP
encoder.
Browse the gallery
Every style on styleref.io/gallery loads here by its slug — no account needed.
Making your own styles
Extraction (turning an image into a style) happens on styleref.io — upload an image there, refine the result, and it lands in your library. Load it here by its share slug or id (sign in with the Login node first).
Workflow templates
The templates at the root run on FLUX.1 dev (the Comfy-Org fp8 all-in-one checkpoint, downloaded on first queue). FLUX reads the prompt with T5, so a full compiled style fits — an SDXL CLIP encoder truncates it at ~77 tokens, which is why the style washes out there no matter which checkpoint you use.
| File | Sign-in | Story |
|---|---|---|
01-quickstart.json |
No | Load → Apply → generate |
02-consistency-grid.json |
No | One style, three subjects, side by side |
03-your-own-style.json |
Yes | Extract on the web, load your own style here |
04-reference-images.json |
No | The style's inspiration images as a batch, next to a render |
05-facets.json |
No | Every section of the style as its own output, next to a normal render |
A parallel set wired for Z-Image Turbo (an S3-DiT model — UNET + Qwen text
encoder + VAE, compiled from the diffusion target) lives in
workflows/z-image/: the same five stories on that
loader stack. The three model files download on first run.
The two sets load different gallery styles on purpose. How well a style demos is a property of the style and the model. FLUX is strongest at light and tonality, so its templates load a noir style — hard key, crushed blacks, monochrome. Z-Image reproduces painterly technique faithfully, so its templates load a Renaissance tempera style. Swap either for any slug from the gallery; these are starting points, not limits.
Neither FLUX nor Z-Image takes a negative prompt. Both are guidance
distilled and run at CFG 1.0, where the negative branch is multiplied out
entirely — so neither set carries a negative encoder, and the sampler's
negative input gets a zeroed conditioning. StyleRef still compiles
the negative and previews it on the canvas; fold anything you need from it into
subject on Apply as a positive phrase. Raising CFG does not bring it back.
Signing in
Add the StyleRef Login node and click Sign in (browser) — no queueing
needed. Your browser opens, you approve, and the node's status flips to signed
in. The token is stored at ~/.config/styleref/credentials.json with 0600
permissions. The styleref CLI
shares this login.
(No frontend at all? npx styleref login signs in the same credentials file,
and queueing the Login node reports the current status.)
Running ComfyUI on a remote or headless machine
Browser sign-in cannot work on a rented GPU box, RunPod, or any headless
server: there is no browser to open, and localhost is the wrong machine. Use a
token instead:
- Copy a token from your account page.
- Where ComfyUI runs, set
STYLEREF_TOKEN=<token> - Restart ComfyUI.
STYLEREF_TOKEN always takes precedence over stored credentials. The Login node
detects the headless case and prints these instructions rather than hanging.
Credits
Nothing in this node pack spends credits. Loading, searching, and applying styles is free and unlimited within the public rate limit. Extraction — the one paid action — happens on styleref.io, where you can preview and refine the result before it costs anything beyond the extraction itself. See plans and limits.
Configuration
| Variable | Purpose |
|---|---|
STYLEREF_TOKEN |
Bearer token; overrides stored credentials. The headless path. |
STYLEREF_API |
API base URL. Defaults to https://styleref.io/api/v1. |
STYLEREF_FORCE_BROWSER_LOGIN |
1 forces browser login, 0 forces the token path. |
Development
pip install pytest ruff pillow numpy # pillow/numpy are test-only deps
pytest tests/ -q
ruff check .
python scripts/build_workflows.py # regenerate workflow templates
The workflow templates are generated — edit
scripts/build_workflows.py, not the JSON.
The nodes are a thin client over StyleRef's public REST API v1 (OpenAPI). All prompt compilation happens server-side — this pack never writes style prose itself, so improvements to StyleRef's compiler reach you without an update to this pack.
Docs & support
License
MIT — see LICENSE.