Saving Styles

A style is a look you keep. Save one, and it fills in visual direction, medium, mood and palette on the create form in a single click, so you are not retyping the same description every time you make something.

What a style does, and what it does not

A style describes how a piece should look. Your idea describes what it is of. They are kept separate on purpose: the style carries the aesthetic and your sentence carries the subject.

This is why a good style never names a subject. “Soft watercolor washes, muted sage and clay, generous white space” applies to a fox, a farmhouse or a wedding invitation. “Watercolor foxes” only works once, and quietly fights your idea every other time.

The two lists

Your saved styles are yours, and belong to the shop you were in when you made them. A boho wall-art shop and a clipart shop under the same account keep separate lists, so you never see the wrong shop’s look in the picker.

Curated styles are pre-built and available to everyone. They cost nothing to try and are usually a faster start than writing your own, especially early on. They appear in the create form’s style picker alongside yours.

Reference images

You can attach a reference image. It only does something on the models that accept one, where it pulls the output toward the reference’s palette and texture.

It is worth adding when a look is easier to show than to describe — a specific paper grain, a particular color relationship. It is not worth adding when your words already pin the look down, and it will not force an exact match. Treat it as a strong hint, not a template.

Getting more out of it

• Save the ones that sold. After a piece does well, save its look as a style while you still remember what you asked for. That is the whole feature, really.
• Keep a style narrow enough to mean something. “Nice and colorful” gives the model nothing to hold on to. Name the medium, the palette and the mood.
• Try the curated set before writing your own. They are built to work across product types, and they are a useful reference for how much detail a good style carries.
• Prune. Twenty near-identical styles make the picker slower to use than five you trust.

FAQ

Where do styles appear? In the style picker on the create form, and in Cadence when you set up recurring creation.

Can I share a style across my shops? Yes — edit it and clear the shop scope. It will then show in every workspace.

Does a style guarantee the output looks like that? No. It steers generation strongly, but each run is a fresh image. Two pieces made with the same style will look related, not identical.

Do styles cost credits? No. Saving and applying styles is free; you are only charged when you create a product.