SimpleMix XL is a three-way anime checkpoint merge tuned for clean, flat, minimal illustration - crisp lineart and simple shading without clutter, while keeping the stable anatomy of the Illustrious ecosystem.
Recipe: 0.45 x WAI-Simple-Illustrious (v1.0) + 0.30 x WAI-illustrious-SDXL (v17) + 0.25 x Illustrious-XL-v1.0, applied to the UNet only (VAE and text encoder inherited from the first model).
What you get:/n- Clean flat colors and crisp lineart from WAI-Simple-Illustrious
Stable composition and strong prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious
- A balanced, broadly compatible anime base from Illustrious-XL v1.0
Suits character art, sticker-ready illustrations, simple backgrounds, webtoon and flat-color style work, and any scene that needs clarity over detail. Add 'flat color, clean lineart' to the prompt for the strongest effect.
[Recommended settings] Sampler DPM++ 2M or Euler a, 28-32 steps, CFG 7, 832x1216. Danbooru-style tags work best. Use bf16 where possible - fp16 can soften output.
[License] CreativeML Open RAIL-M, inherited from the base models. Please credit the base models if you redistribute. Part of the merged-checkpoint series.