Zako-Deco (装饰版块)

The difference between a poster and a caption slapped on an image is usually decoration: a corner line here, a gradient wash, a divider that tells the eye where the title ends. Zako-Deco is the node in the Zako-EmbedText pack that supplies those finishing touches, so your text-on-image output looks designed instead of annotated. It's the quiet middle sibling - Zako-Text does the talking, Zako-Composer does the rendering, and Zako-Deco is what makes either of them look intentional.

How it works

Same architecture as its siblings: ZakoDeco takes your style choices, bundles them into a lightweight ZAKO_LAYER dict, and hands it off to the composer to draw. Nothing is rendered here - the node is a description, the compositing happens later with Pillow.

The 14 styles split into three behavior groups, and this is the main thing to internalize because it trips people up:

• Global-layout styles - 四角线 (corner lines), 十字 (cross), 边框 (frame), 圆点 (dots), 引号 (quote marks), 加号 (plus marks), 渐变遮罩 (gradient mask). These anchor themselves to the canvas and ignore the center coordinates entirely.
• Positioned shapes - 分隔线 (divider), 圆形 (circle), 菱形 (diamond), 三角形 (triangle), 星形 (star), 方框 (box). These use x, y, and scale to place and size themselves.
• 色块 (color block) - a rectangle placed by x/y and sized by panel_w/panel_h in canvas fractions. The tooltip notes it goes down to 0.003, which is a hairline.

The styles input is a MultiCombo, so you can stack several - say frame + corner lines + gradient mask in one node, which keeps the layer count down.

The inputs that matter

• styles - the MultiCombo picker. Defaults to 四角线. Start here.
• color - the line and shape color, defaulting to a tasteful gold #c8a95f.
• x / y / scale - only meaningful for the positioned shapes and color block. If you're using a global style and wonder why moving x/y does nothing, that's working as designed.
• strength - opacity for the gradient mask and color block (0–1).
• panel_w / panel_h - the color block's width and height as canvas fractions; the 0.003 floor is how you make thin rules.
• angle - rotates the whole decoration layer around center, ±180°.

Output is a single 图层 (layer) socket that plugs into Zako-Composer's layers input.

Installing it

The whole pack installs in one step - no dependencies, no models, no requirements.txt to fight with. ComfyUI Manager: search Zako-EmbedText and install. Or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/xiaoshengyvlin/Zako-EmbedText

Restart ComfyUI. Because the pack is written against the V3 node API, a recent ComfyUI is required for the nodes to show up at all.

Gotchas worth knowing

Layer order is draw order in the composer, so a deco layer plugged into a higher-numbered input slot will paint over your text. Put ornaments you want behind text in a low slot. Also remember strength only affects the gradient and color block - line art is drawn at full opacity, and there's no separate line-width input, so if a divider looks too heavy you thin it with scale or swap to a hairline color block.

It's a small node in a small pack, but for poster work it covers most of what you'd normally open an editor for - and it does it in the graph, reproducibly, at any canvas size.