AI has no taste.
You do.

Drop the references you love. keyline measures them into one direction any model can follow.

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A real recording of keyline, 2026-09: seven CC0 references, the board composed by the engine, the direction generated live. The half-minute read is cut to its start and end; nothing else is edited.

Everything keyline measures, compiles, and keeps.

No modules, no add-ons. Everything, from the first board.

Measured palette

Eight colours with real weights, read from your pixels: hex and percentage, not vibes.

Eight reading layers

Light, material, era, mood and more, each written from the references, unedited.

[SUBJECT]

The [SUBJECT] slot

One prompt, any noun. Swap the subject, keep the taste.

Per-model dialects

Prose for chat models, flags for image models. Compiled, not rewritten.

Three grounds

Paper, Aluminium, Graphite. The board re-inks correctly on each.

Deterministic layouts

Seeded variants of every board. Same seed, same layout, forever.

Contrast score

A measured reading of the board’s tonal spread. This board: 60/100.

Local by default

Boards live in your browser. Images leave once, for the AI reading you trigger.

The Ledger export

Watermark-free, print-resolution plates with the measured swatches on the keyline.

Restore by email

Your unlock follows your purchase email. New machine, same everything.

Twenty references

Per board, with roles: reference, palette, texture, and what to avoid.

Keyboard-first

Arrows cycle layouts, 1 2 3 swap grounds, G generates, ? lists all of it. Every destructive action undoes; nothing asks "are you sure".

That's all of it.

keyline is small on purpose. One person builds it, and every card above is live today.

Free to try on unlimited boards. One payment owns it.

Create a direction — free See pricing

Everyone sold you AI that renders anything in seconds.

Nobody told you it can't hold a direction, so you describe, regenerate, and describe again.

keyline measures the direction instead.

you keep typing:

  • "less minimalist"
  • "more like image 4"
  • "not that warm"
  • "keep the material"
  • "no, warmer than that"

switch to Midjourney re-upload all 8 rewrite everything start again.

References

Start from what you already love.

The images are the brief. keyline composes them into a board the moment they land.

  • Up to 20 references in Sources. Drop images; the engine composes the board. No dragging pixels.
  • Mark the lead. ★ sets the dominant image; roles weight the rest: reference, palette, texture, avoid.
  • Seeded layouts, cycled with the arrow keys. Every recompose is deterministic: same seed, same board, forever.
A real screenshot, cropped: the Sources shelf with seven references (the lead marked with a star) beside the composed board on the Graphite ground, its keyline ledger and measured swatches along the bottom

Measurement

keyline reads what you can't describe.

Real numbers from the pixels, then eight readings from the images. Nothing invented.

  • Eight colours, weighted. Measured from your pixels: hex and percentage, not vibes.
  • A contrast score. This board: 60/100.
  • Eight reading layers. Light, material, era, mood. Each one written from the references, unedited.
  • A thesis. One paragraph naming the direction.
A real screenshot, cropped: the direction panel mid-read. The header says reading with a Cancel key, the mark-building loader ticks beside an elapsed counter, the measured palette and its eight hexes sit below, and skeleton rows hold the place of the eight readings to come

Compiled output

Take the direction to any model.

One direction, compiled. Not a description you rewrite per tool.

  • One prompt with a [SUBJECT] slot. Swap the noun, keep the taste.
  • Dialects per model. compiles for ChatGPT · Claude · Midjourney · any image model.
  • It stays on screen. The compiled prompt has its own zone at the foot of the panel for the whole session. Free shows its first lines; $29 removes the clamp.
  • Copy it. The button on this card works. This is the real compiled text.
keyline / direction · gilt & oxblood1:1 · 8 colours · 2026-08
[SUBJECT], shot as a museum catalogue plate: centred and frontal at a slight three-quarter turn against a seamless cool grey sweep that darkens toward the top, wide even margins, one soft cast shadow anchoring the base; palette restricted to mid grey #b3b3b3 through charcoal #4d4d4d with matte gilt bronze and deep oxblood #4d1a1a as the only saturated accents, plus alabaster cream and a single cool periwinkle note; broad diffuse light from high front-left rakes across the surface, long rolled highlights on metal, no pinpoint specular, no coloured fill; form a stable symmetrical mass with generous hand-softened radii and chamfered corners, carrying dense applied ornament, garlands, beading and fine engraved linework at fingertip scale; finish alternates high specular gilt and black lacquer against dry powdery stone, crushed velvet pile with pressure creases and finely grained brushed steel, tool marks and wear left visible.
compiles for ChatGPT · Claude · Midjourney · any image model

gilt & oxblood · composed by the engine · palette measured · unedited

One direction. A doorway. A chair. A bottle.

One identical prompt into three models. Only the [SUBJECT] word changed. Watch the direction's "single cool periwinkle note" surface in all three.

GPT Image 2 output for the subject a doorway: an ornate stone doorway with black lacquer doors, gilt garlands, oxblood velvet panels and a periwinkle cartouche, on a grey studio sweep
“a doorway” · GPT Image 2OpenAI
FLUX.2 output for the subject a lounge chair: a black lacquer and gilt armchair in crushed oxblood velvet with one stone arm and a periwinkle drape, on the same grey sweep
“a lounge chair” · FLUX.2 maxBlack Forest Labs
Nano Banana output for the subject a perfume bottle: a silver and gilt flask with an oxblood velvet panel, beading, an alabaster stopper and a periwinkle cabochon, on the same grey sweep
“a perfume bottle” · Nano BananaGoogle

The direction transferred. The subject didn’t matter.

Generated 2026-08 from the compiled direction on this page: one identical prompt into each model, only the [SUBJECT] word changed. Outputs unedited; job records in the repo.

Whatever you design.

Pin down the feel of a space. Then render it anywhere.

“Museum-plate documentation of dense ornament: warm dyed textiles and dark wood held flat against neutral grey, lit softly enough to read every carved edge and woven thread.”

— the direction keyline generated from this board, unedited

Real board on the Paper ground: composed by the engine, palette measured, CC0 references.

Precedent studies in. A direction a model can follow, out.

“Classical architectural ornament recorded with archival rigour: centred, frontal, warm-neutral, and lit to read every carved profile.”

— the direction keyline generated from this board, unedited

Real board on the Paper ground: composed by the engine, palette measured, CC0 references.

One CMF direction, from moodboard to every render.

“Machined greys and black glass under window light, punctuated by one small hot signal of colour and a few words of tight type.”

— the direction keyline generated from this board, unedited

Real board on the Graphite ground: composed by the engine, palette measured, CC0 references.

Hand-made taste, in a language machines can follow.

“Single hand-made objects isolated on seamless neutral grey, lit softly and evenly so that dense surface ornament, patina, and material grain read as the whole subject.”

— the direction keyline generated from this board, unedited

Real board on the Aluminium ground: composed by the engine, palette measured, CC0 references.

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STUDIO · IN THE WORKS

Next: your direction joins the conversation.

  • The keyline MCP: inside Claude, ChatGPT and CursorMid-conversation, your AI asks keyline for the direction and renders in it. No copy-paste, no drift.
  • Shared directionsRatified once, and the whole team renders with it.
  • Team librariesYour boards and references on every machine you sign into.

Studio will be a yearly tier. None of it is for sale until it exists. It ships when it's real, and it will be announced here and in the app's What's new first. Running a studio and want in early? hello@keyline.studio

Questions.

What exactly does $29 buy?

Everything, forever: the compiled prompt with per-model copies, the Markdown brief, and watermark-free print-resolution exports, on this board and every board you ever make. One payment. It is not a subscription and not a per-export fee.

Do you store my images?

No. Boards live in your browser's own storage. Your references leave your machine only in one case: the images are sent once to the AI for the reading when you press Generate.

Couldn't I just upload my images to ChatGPT?

A vision model will describe your pictures. keyline measures what they have in common: real hexes and weights from the pixels, eight traceable layers, and a compiled prompt with a [SUBJECT] slot that stays reusable. The three-model proof above is the difference in practice.

What if I clear my browser or switch machines?

Your unlock is restored by the email you purchased with, from Settings › License in the app: a code sent to your inbox proves it and turns everything back on. Boards themselves are local; export the brief for anything you can't lose.

Are the boards and outputs on this page real?

Yes. The boards are composed by the same engine and measured by the same code as yours, over CC0 references (Met Open Access and Openverse, provenance recorded per image). The direction and the three model outputs are unedited, generated 2026-08 from one identical prompt.

Your references already know what you like.

Create a direction — free

$29 once unlocks everything, forever. Not monthly, not per board, not per export.