Show HN: StyleRef – Define your creative style once, use it across every AI tool
StyleRef is a portable style specification that lets you define your creative style once and paste it into any AI tool—ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, and more—to get consistent outputs. It includes 160+ style blocks covering tone, color, typography, mood, and more, with extraction capabilities from images or documents.
AI tools forget your Style. StyleRef keeps it Consistent.
Define your creative Style once. Paste your StyleRef into any AI tool to get the same results—every prompt, every generation.
Create Your StyleRef — FreeNo account needed — start building in secondsSee Samples →
Define Style Once. Use Everywhere.
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Midjourney
Flux
Model-Optimized
Copy-Paste Portable
STYLE.md Export
160+ Style Blocks across 20 sections
Output FormatMedium, platform, aspect ratio, creative discipline
Mood & PersonalityEnergy, emotional bias, narrative, humor register
ColorsPalette with hex codes, roles, weights, gradients
TypographyFont family, weights, hierarchy, case, scale
Light & ShadowLighting mood, key light, atmosphere, film grading
Voice & LanguageFormality, vocabulary, sentence length, pacing
Spatial StructurePerspective, focal structure, layout axis, density
Camera & MotionShot size, angle, DOF, lens, film stock, movement
Shape LanguageShape basis, primitives, edges, silhouette
Container & BoundaryContainer shape, corners, padding, edge behavior
Line & Stroke SystemStroke usage, weight, consistency, joins
Surface & MaterialTexture, material simulation, imperfection, micro-detail
Post-processingTone curve, grain, sharpening, render style
Background & EnvironmentBackground type, environment mood, props
Artistic MediumsPhysical medium, illustrative technique
UI & WebColor theme, elevation, buttons, icons, navigation
ReferencesCultural references, temporal era, reference brands
InspirationReference image URLs
GuardrailsAvoided visuals, colors, words, conditional logic
Custom Style ItemsFree-form key-value pairs for rules that don't fit elsewhere
Built For
Creatives who use AI professionally and need their style to stay intact — every generation, every time.
AI Copywriters
Lock your voice — prompt after prompt.
AI Product Designers
Define your UI/UX design system for AI-generated assets.
AI Art Directors
Consistent lighting and mood for high-end AI production.
AI Graphic Designers
Your visual language, replicated in every output.
AI Video + XR
Persistent style direction for generative video and extended reality. Your visual DNA, across every emerging medium.
How StyleRef Works
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Extract and Define Style Blocks
160+ structured blocks for tone, color, typography, mood, and constraints. Start from scratch or extract from an image, copy, or document.
02
Generate Your StyleRef
One click produces a compact, model-optimized specification that AI parses precisely.
03
Paste Into Any AI Tool
ChatGPT. Claude. Gemini. Or drop the STYLE.md file into your project for coding agents.
04
Get Consistent Results
No more prompt engineering or hoping for the best. Your outputs match your exact visual and tonal standards, every single time.
StyleRef
AI Tools
Consistent Tone, Voice and Mood
AI Branding
Image Generation
AI UI UX Design
AI Copy Writing
Words are weapons. Shapes are shields. Our communication is as sharp as a crease and as loud as hot pink on cerulean blue.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a StyleRef?
A StyleRef is a structured style specification — a compact, copy-pasteable block of text that defines your creative style across dimensions like tone, color, typography, mood, and constraints. Build it once, paste it into any AI tool.
Does it work with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini?
Yes. StyleRef generates model-optimized formats — select 'AI Tools' for ChatGPT, and Gemini; 'STYLE.md' for coding agents like Cursor, Codex, Claude Code and projects; 'FLUX' for FLUX image generation; 'Midjourney' for Midjourney; or 'Diffusion' for DALL·E and Stable Diffusion.
What is a style block?
Style blocks are the individual building units of a StyleRef. Each block covers a specific dimension of your style — Color Palette, Tone of Voice, Typography, Mood, Output Format. StyleRef includes 160+ blocks covering writing, image, video, and design styles.
How is StyleRef different from a system prompt?
A system prompt is a broad instruction. A StyleRef is a structured, machine-readable style specification with enforced priority rules — designed to override default AI tone and aesthetic drift, not just guide it.
Can StyleRef extract a style from an image or document?
Yes. StyleRef includes an extraction feature that analyzes a reference — an image, copy, instructions, brand guidelines, or documents — and extracts its characteristics into structured style blocks, ready to reuse.
Is StyleRef free?
StyleRef has a free tier. Paid plans unlock additional style blocks, advanced extraction model, multiple saved StyleRefs.
Your Style. Structured. Portable. Persistent.
Build your StyleRef in minutes. Paste it into any AI tool. Get consistent results — time after time.
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