Custom Style Presets
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A Custom Style pass renders the map through one of your own Mapbox styles
instead of plain satellite. This is how you build a broadcast map look from separated
layers — a matte fill, borders only, labels only, roads only — each exported as its own
pixel-aligned pass, then composited in post.
Where the styles come from — Mapbox Studio
Custom styles are designed in Mapbox Studio
(free, part of your Mapbox account):
- Open studio.mapbox.com and create a new style
(start from a template or blank).
- Design the look you need — e.g. hide everything except administrative borders,
or a flat matte land/water fill, or place labels on transparent.
- Publish the style, then open Share and copy the Style URL. It looks
like
mapbox://styles/your-username/cl0abc123....
Adding it as a preset
- In Settings → Custom Style Presets, type a Name (e.g. Matte, Borders, Labels).
- Paste the Style URL into the Style field — either
mapbox://styles/owner/id or just styles/owner/id works.
- Click Add Preset. It now appears in the Custom Style pass dropdown on the
Generate panel.
Use Update Selected / Delete Selected to manage existing presets. Each preset
is reusable across every workflow.
Broadcast tip: make one preset per element — Matte, Borders, Labels,
Roads — add them all as passes on the same locked area, and you get a stack of perfectly
registered layers to build your final map from, exactly like the satellite + displacement
passes.
Custom Style Presets — part of the
Skylab 5 TerrainStudio broadcast workflow.
Questions or comments: studio@skylab5.com
