Guidance and prompts for using Style Reference code
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Art Style Type

This SREF style blends elements of minimalism with Japanese ukiyo-e, while incorporating modern flat design qualities. It employs clean lines and shapes while retaining the atmospheric quality and compositional principles of traditional Eastern art. The stark black and white contrast evokes a fusion of ink wash painting and paper cutting art, but reinterpreted through a contemporary design language.

Style Characteristics

The primary characteristic of these images is the strong black and white contrast with no grayscale transitions, creating powerful silhouette effects with high visual impact. The lines are crisp and decisive, with extremely simplified shapes, as if each element has been carefully distilled to retain only what's essential for conveying meaning. The compositions are elegantly balanced with generous negative space, creating a "subtractive aesthetic" that feels both modern and infused with Eastern sensibilities.

Style-Enhancing Prompt Keywords

  • Ink Wash Aesthetic: Adding this keyword can further enhance the Eastern artistic quality, bringing more fluidity and poetic sensibility to the images
  • Silhouette Art: Using this term can better emphasize the dramatic black and white contrast, creating even bolder visual effects
  • Zen Design: Incorporating this element strengthens the sense of tranquility and philosophical depth, adding more contemplative quality and meaning to the work

Recommended Application Scenarios

This style is particularly suitable for high-end brand logos, cover illustrations for literary works or poetry collections, visual identity systems for boutique hotels, decorative art for modern tea houses or Japanese restaurants, interface design for meditation apps, and any context requiring an elegant, minimal aesthetic with profound atmospheric quality.

More Tips


You can explore further by combining the following command:

  • --sv: There are six versions of the Style Reference feature in Midjourney version 7 when using images. Use the --sv parameter to choose between them. --sv 6 is default. --sv 4 is the old V7 sref model (prior to June 16, 2025). Using --sv 6 and --sv 4 may produce different style results.
  • --s: Default value is 100, can be set from 0 to 1000. The higher the value, the more detailed the image, and the closer the style may be to reality.
  • -niji 6: Using this command will give the image a more anime style.
  • --sw: Default value is 100, can be input from 0 to 1000. A higher value makes the style closer to the original.
  • You can now blend multiple --sref codes together (for example --sref 123 456 )
  • You can weigh individual codes or urls as follows --sref 123::2
  • You can also read more guides on How to use SREF Code

Other Reference Code

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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 4111512992 in MidJourney
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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 3556861680 in MidJourney
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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 4294367103 in MidJourney
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