---
title: Krea 2 Character Design
emoji: 🎨
colorFrom: indigo
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.49.1
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: other
short_description: Krea 2 Character Design LoRA on Krea 2 Turbo (ZeroGPU-ready)
---

# 🎨 Krea 2 · Character Design

A Gradio Space that runs the CivitAI **[[KREA 2] Character Design](https://civitai.com/models/2815175/krea-2-character-design)**
LoRA on top of **[`krea/Krea-2-Turbo`](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Turbo)** using the
diffusers `Krea2Pipeline`.

It generates proper character design sheets — front / side / back views, expression
studies, colour palettes and accessories.

## How it works
- The LoRA lives in the companion HF **dataset** (`models/lora/krea2-character-design.safetensors`)
  and is downloaded into a local `models/lora/` folder on startup.
- Inference runs inside a `@spaces.GPU` allocation (**ZeroGPU-ready**).
- Every generation (image + prompt + settings) is archived back to the dataset under `generations/`.

## ⚙️ Required setup
This Space depends on **gated** models and a write-enabled token:

1. **Accept the Krea 2 license** with the account whose token you use:
   - https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Turbo (and optionally `krea/Krea-2-Raw`)
2. **Add a Space secret** named `HF_TOKEN` = a HF **write** token
   (needed for the gated base model *and* to save generations to the dataset).
3. **Hardware:** currently set to CPU. Switch to **ZeroGPU** (Settings → Hardware)
   to actually run the 12B model — it will not generate on CPU.

## Environment variables (optional)
| Var | Default |
|-----|---------|
| `BASE_MODEL` | `krea/Krea-2-Turbo` |
| `DATASET_REPO` | `that-username-is-not-available/Krea-Char-Design-Data` |
| `LORA_REPO_PATH` | `models/lora/krea2-character-design.safetensors` |
| `SAVE_GENERATIONS` | `1` |

## Recommended settings (Turbo)
- **Steps:** 8 · **Guidance:** 0.0 · **LoRA strength:** 1.0
- Trigger word `Character design` is auto-prepended (toggle in the UI).