See how Danbooru face tags change an anime face: 172 expression tags and 32 drawing-style tags. Every picture on this page shows the same girl, made with the same prompt, seed and settings on Nova Anime v18. Only one tag changes.

Each group starts with a picture without a tag, for comparison, then lists its tags from A to Z. Copy a tag to use it in your own prompt, or choose Try to open MonAI with that picture's full prompt and settings. Select a picture to see it full size.

How the pictures were made

Each prompt puts one tag into the same base prompt:

1girl, [tag], ponytail, parted bangs, white shirt, portrait, straight-on, white background

It ends with the Nova Anime v18 quality tags:

masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, absurdres

Every picture uses the same negative prompt:

photorealistic, realistic, 3d, glitch, deformed, ugly, disfigured, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, displeasing, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), signature, watermark, bad AI generated

  • Model: Nova Anime v18
  • Size: 768 × 960
  • Steps: 20
  • Guidance scale (CFG): 4.5
  • Sampler: Euler a
  • Seed: 948821427

Both groups use this prompt, these settings and this seed. Results vary: with another prompt, seed or model, a tag can look different or have little effect.

Where the tags come from

The tag names come from Danbooru's face tags group. The expressions come from its expression sections, plus four tags from outside that group; the drawing styles come from its Drawing styles section. The groups follow the organization of TagExplorer's Heads page.

A few tags contain parentheses. Their copy text puts a backslash before each one, as in gloom \(expression\); keep the backslashes, or the parentheses are read as weighting. Emoticon tags keep their underscores, as in ^_^.

For more on anime prompts, see Anime Prompting and the Illustrious Prompt Guide.

Try opens MonAI with that picture’s prompt, negative prompt, model, size, steps and seed selected. Nothing is generated until you choose.

Face tags – Expressions

172 tags
Danbooru tag group
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Prompt: 1girl, [tag], ponytail, parted bangs, white shirt, portrait, straight-on, white background, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, absurdres

Negative prompt: photorealistic, realistic, 3d, glitch, deformed, ugly, disfigured, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, displeasing, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), signature, watermark, bad AI generated

Face tags – Drawing styles

32 tags
Danbooru tag group
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Prompt: 1girl, [tag], ponytail, parted bangs, white shirt, portrait, straight-on, white background, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, absurdres

Negative prompt: photorealistic, realistic, 3d, glitch, deformed, ugly, disfigured, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, displeasing, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), signature, watermark, bad AI generated

Source: the MonAI wiki · Updated · First published