Gallery, sharing & remixing

This guide covers how styles move between people: activating a share link, publishing to the public gallery, changing visibility, remixing someone else’s style, and creator profiles.

Visibility levels

Every style has one of three visibility levels:

Every style gets a share link at creation, but the link stays off until you activate it — making a style reachable is always a deliberate act.

Share a style by link

The first time you share a style, StyleRef activates its link as an unlisted publish:

1. Select Share on the style. A required checkbox confirms you own or have the rights to what you’re sharing.
2. An automated review runs — a safety check on the style’s text and images, which also fills in the style’s category, tags, and description.
3. Once the review passes, the link is live at https://styleref.io/share/{slug}.

Anyone with the link sees the full read-only style page and can copy the style into any AI tool — no account needed — or remix it into their own library. A link can be activated for a style of any size.

Publish to the gallery

Publishing with public visibility lists the style in the gallery  across 20 creative disciplines — Photography, Illustration, UI/UX, Cinematography, Brand identity, and more — where anyone can find, copy, save, or remix it.

Gallery publishing has one extra requirement: the style needs at least 10 style items. Below that, publish it as unlisted instead — the link works at any size. The same rights confirmation and automated review apply.

Agents can publish through the same moderated pipeline with the publish_style tool — see Tools reference.

Change or revoke visibility

• Take a link back — set the style to private. The link stops working immediately.
• Remove from the gallery, keep the link — set a public style to unlisted.
• Re-activate a revoked link — this re-runs the review, since the style may have changed while it was private.

Remix (fork) a style

Remix on any shared or gallery style copies it into your library as a private, editable copy that keeps lineage back to the original. Use it when you want your own version of someone’s style to tweak. The copy starts private — share or publish it like any style you built yourself.

Creator profiles

Every creator who publishes has a public profile at https://styleref.io/u/{handle} listing their published styles. A handle is assigned automatically the first time you publish.

Next steps

• Create a style — build something worth publishing.
• Plans & limits — what each plan includes.
• MCP tools reference — save_style, fork_style, publish_style, set_style_visibility.