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v3.1.0 — Ideogram 4 (local text-rendering image model)

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@mrbizarro mrbizarro released this 11 Jun 11:13
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Ideogram 4 — text that lands where you put it

Phosphene now runs Ideogram 4 locally on Apple Silicon — an open-weight 9.3B image model that's exceptional at rendering real, legible text — with a visual text-placement canvas: position each line of text with a box and the model renders it there.

Ideogram 4 sample — a field-guide poster with precisely placed text

Generated locally in Phosphene. Every text element — title, subtitle, the four specimen labels, the footer — was placed by its caption bounding box.

Using it

  • Pick Ideogram 4 in Image Studio.
  • One-time setup: add a Hugging Face Read token in Settings → API tokens, and accept the (free, non-commercial research) license on the model page. Your first render downloads the ~26 GB weights.
  • Place text with the Simple or Layout canvas, or paste a raw caption.
  • Speed presets: Fast (12 steps) and Quality (20 steps).

Under the hood

  • mflux 0.18 (mflux-generate-ideogram4), gated ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-fp8 (9.3B DiT + Qwen3-VL text encoder + FLUX.2 VAE).
  • Fixed a gated-download auth bug so your configured token is always used for the download — it previously fell back to a stale cached hf auth login and failed with a 401 for anyone whose cache held a different account.

Update via Pinokio. Personal/research use is free; commercial use needs a license from Ideogram.

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