ComfyUI-NeonsStyleExplorer

Neons Style Explorer

A style catalog node for ComfyUI. A style entry is a style prefix and nothing else: it describes how the picture is rendered and closes with the medium — ... anime style image, ... photograph style image, ... cgi style image. No instructions to the model, no sentences about what the image contains.

Nodes (category Neons):

• Neons Style Explorer — text in, text out
• Neons Style Explorer (Encode) — the same plus CLIP encode
• Neons Gallery Capture — headless equivalent of the Save button

Read the manual — every widget, the browser, previews, the crawl workflow, catalogs and troubleshooting.

Install

ComfyUI Manager — search for Neons Style Explorer and install, then restart ComfyUI.

Manually — clone into ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ and restart:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Neon-Sparks/ComfyUI-NeonsStyleExplorer

Restart ComfyUI after installing or updating — a browser refresh loads the new interface but not the node's HTTP routes, so new features fail until the process restarts.

No extra dependencies: it uses Pillow and numpy, both of which ComfyUI already ships. Python 3.9+.

Output

masterpiece, best quality, Anime broadcast still: flat cel colouring in hard
shadow bands, simplified on-model faces, painted matte background, mild
compression softness and grain, TV-frame colour, anime style image. a woman on
a fire escape at night

masterpiece, best quality, (anime_screenshot:1.1), (anime_coloring:1.1),
(cel_shading:1.1), (film_grain:1.1), 1girl, rooftop

• output_format — natural | danbooru | natural + danbooru
• style_weight — a 1.0–5.0 slider; wraps the clause as (clause:weight) in natural mode and every style tag as (tag:weight) in booru modes
• style_position — put the style clause at the start or the end
• quality — a separate quality-prefix box, always kept at the very front
• three axes — style, format (what job the frame does), finish (a stackable realism qualifier)
• 🎲 Random at the top of every style dropdown, with roll_scope (all / family / favourites / recent / has preview / missing preview) and roll_seed plus its control-after-generate widget (set it to randomize so every run rolls anew)
• Named catalogs — keep a separate preview set per model ("my Krea 2", "SDXL", a client project): each catalog has its own gallery, favourites and recents, while the style texts and your edits stay shared. Pick one from the toolbar, add one with + New catalog
• Crawl through — a switch that walks the main style dropdown one entry per queued run instead of rolling, starting from the style you have selected, over whatever roll_scope selects; set roll_scope to missing preview, auto_gallery to every, queue a few hundred runs and the gallery fills itself in order
• Favourites and recents — star entries from the card or the node toolbar, filter the browser by them, and let the dice roll inside either list; every run records the style it used

The panel

The preview scales with the node on both axes, the button row sits under it, and the panel body is click-through so the node still drags from anywhere. Buttons: Roll, Catalog, Save, Edit, and a ⋯ menu (browse formats and finishes, roll style 2/3, new custom style, clear, delete shots). The composed prompt updates live underneath.

Catalog browser

Banner at the top that scrolls away under a sticky toolbar, then a virtualised grid — only the visible cards are mounted, so a thousand entries scroll smoothly. Search over name, alias, family and tags; filter by axis, family, source and preview state; hover shows the clause; Edit opens the entry; JSON import/export for style packs.

Gallery

The gallery ships empty — nothing is bundled. Generate, then press Save: the last result becomes that style's preview. Up to eight shots per style, click a thumbnail in the strip to make it the cover, auto_gallery can fill them automatically. Previews are keyed on the style's stable id, so renaming never orphans an image.

The catalog

3015 entries — 1419 with every clause hand-written for this catalog, plus the 1596-entry imported Extra family, across nine families: photography & film 249, traditional painting 208, anime & manga 164, design & aesthetics 150, 3D & games 148, illustration 122, comics & print 83, experimental & material 79, western animation 68. Three axes — 2867 styles, 97 formats, 51 finishes. The Extra family is imported from ThetaCursed's Krea 2 style collection under its MIT licence; see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md. Old [Clio] names are relabelled [v2], and every merged duplicate keeps its old name as a search alias. STYLES.md lists everything.

tools/build_all.sh               # import + lint + index + docs + examples + tests
python3 tools/lint.py --all      # every finding
node tools/check_web.mjs         # UI: undefined calls and bad imports
python3 tests/test_compose.py    # 49 tests

The source of truth for the text is tools/written/*.json; import_source.py merges it into styles/. The linter enforces the wording rules: the clause must close with its medium, must not contain instruction or scope language, must not name picture content, ≤380 characters, and every tag must exist in data/tags.txt.

Layout

catalog.py   loading, merging, caching, lookup, roll
compose.py   the one composer (the UI calls it over HTTP)
nodes.py     the nodes
gallery.py   preview gallery on disk
store.py     overrides / custom / hidden styles
styles/      the catalog, one file per family
data/tags.txt   validated booru tag vocabulary
web/         api, css, panel, catalog_ui, main
tools/       import, lint, and the hand-written source in tools/written/

MIT licensed.