Customize Style Feature Guide

Editor’s note (PixAI) This guide was written by one of our community’s standout creators, 阿童 (ATone), and is republished here with credit to the original author.

📝 This article is updated as new tips and features are discovered.

The following are based on the author’s personal experiments and may not represent best practices.

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🚀 Highly recommended: CocoKoko_19’s comprehensive Style Code collection (Google Doc)
— not only does it contain a huge number of Style Codes, but also insightful analysis on how Style Codes work under the hood. Highly worth reading!

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What is a Style Code?

Tsubaki.2 introduces a “Style” feature that lets users customize the visual style of generated images, similar to the quality tag tool from the SDXL era.

Even without selecting an official preset style, writing style descriptions directly in the prompt is effective.
The Customize Style field and Prompt field produce different effects — descriptions in the Customize Style field produce stronger results. (See the “Customize Style Field vs Prompt” section below for details.)
After creating a custom style, you can generate a Style Code (e.g. SH171537) through the sharing feature, which others can use to apply your style.
Think of Style Codes as “style P-values” — share a code and let others use your style!

Style Code Demo

The first image below uses my Style Code (SH171537), the second has no style applied. (Same prompt, same seed)

Tips for Creating Custom Styles

Here are some tips from my experiments so far:

Experiment with different style descriptions to find what you like.
Try different approaches: painting style (watercolor, ink wash, impasto), lighting (cinematic lighting, backlight), color mood (muted tones, high contrast), etc.
Sometimes unexpected combinations produce amazing results — just keep experimenting!

These are preliminary findings — feel free to share your own discoveries 😊

Customize Style Field vs Prompt

Through experimentation, I discovered that the same style description produces noticeably different results depending on where you write it.

🔍 Finding 1: The Customize Style field produces stronger effects

Using this style description as an example:

The background blurs with motion, emphasizing speed through light trails while maintaining sharp focus on the rider and her machine.
The image balances hyper-realistic textures of leather, metal, and fabric with stylized lighting that heightens the cyberpunk aesthetic.

Style description written in Prompt field

Style description written in Customize Style field

The difference is clear — the style effect is much stronger when written in the Customize Style field.

🔍 Finding 2: Prompt Helper reinforces style descriptions

When Prompt Helper is enabled, the Generation Tasks log reveals that it reinforces the Customize Style field content by incorporating it into the prompt again. This makes the style effect even stronger.

Prompt Helper ON → Style description reinforced

Prompt Helper OFF → Style field content not visible in Generation Tasks

Benefits of Converting Custom Styles to Style Codes

Easy to share: Just a few characters to apply a style to other artworks
Protects your style description

After publishing an artwork, other users can see your Customize Style field content in the artwork details:

Direct style description → Others can see the full content after publish

Using Style Code → Only the code is shown, original description is protected

Therefore, if you want to share your work but keep your style description private, using a Style Code is the better choice.

Prompt Helper Impact ⚠️

During preset style experiments, an interesting finding emerged:

Enabling Prompt Helper generally improves the overall atmosphere and coherence of the image.
However, the Prompt Helper sometimes over-interprets the prompt, causing unexpected changes to the character’s appearance.

Therefore — if you need high consistency for original characters that the model doesn’t recognize, it’s recommended to turn off the Prompt Helper to reduce variables.

Appendix: Preset Style Comparison Chart (Beta)

This comparison chart was made during the beta testing period using “Tsunu’s” prompt to test all preset styles. (PH = Prompt Helper)

Some preset style names and options have changed since the official launch, but the experimental results still serve as useful reference.

Preset Styles × Prompt Helper (PH) Comparison

Closing

This article will be updated as new tips or features are released.

Want to see more styles? Check out the Style Code Collection.

Or visit the dedicated channel on PixAI’s official Discord.