You know what you need — a style for a kids’ book, an eerie look, or a visual straight out of the Y2K — and the search answers with an empty page. Until this week, “2d” found nothing at all. Today it finds 711 styles.
Midlibrary 4 has been live for three weeks, and we read what you typed into its search. Almost a third of it came back empty. Some were typos. Others were plain words the Library simply didn’t know: 2d, y2k, wuxia. It knew styles by their names and categories, not by what they’re for.
So every style in the Library now carries search words of eight kinds. You won’t see them on a style’s page. They’re there for the search box.
Eight Ways to Find a Style
1 · Who it’s for. Styles now know their audience. Search for kids: 707 styles.
2 · The world it belongs to. Fairy tales, space opera, martial-arts legends. Wuxia found nothing before. Now it finds 34 styles.
3 · The mood. Search eerie: 505 styles.
4 · What it’s good for. Posters, stickers, book covers, tattoos. Search tattoo: 103 styles.
5 · The era. y2k found nothing. Now it finds 18 styles.
6 · The medium. 2d found nothing at all. Now it finds 711 styles.
7 · The names it recalls. An artist’s name finds the artist, and now also the styles that share the look. Search Edward Gorey: 33 styles.
8 · The themes. Holidays, occasions, subjects. Search Halloween: 317 styles.
What’s Next
We keep on working on and improving Midlibrary. And search will become even better with time. Next on our roadmap: multi-language search, typos recognition and correction, and direct search by SREF numbers. Stay tuned!
Your Turn
Searched for something and found nothing? Tell me what you typed. The Write to us link sits at the bottom of every page, and it comes straight to me.
Happy midjourneys,
— Andrei
About the author
I am a visual artist with 17 years of experience in portrait photography, film, mask design, and education. As Midjourney AI and its analogs are revolutionizing the world of art and our creativity itself, I am overwhelmingly excited to explore the limits of these fantastic new tools and share my findings with the community.
