1. Sign up for Claude

If you don’t already have a Claude account, you’ll need to make one to create and use styles. This feature is available on all plans, including the free one.

2. Choose a style

On the Claude home screen, there is a settings button. Click this and you’ll be given two options. One is to toggle the web search on and off, and the other is to use a style.

This comes with a variety of choices, including a normal tone, concise, explanatory, and formal. These alone can all be useful, altering the tone of Claude for your particular use. However, you can also create and edit styles here.

3. Create a custom style

To get a style that fits your voice personally, you need to create a custom style. When you do this, you’ll be given two options. One is to describe your style.

This works similarly to prompting AI, explaining that you want a style that fits your own voice and tone. This will require you to explain your own style, or the kind of voice you want Claude to write in. You can also upload writing examples to set a tone.

This can either be documents or simply text that you are uploading. If you give Claude examples of your text it will aim to replicate your tone from that piece of text.

4. Use the new style

Once you’ve set up your tone of choice, go back to Claude's prompting page. Here you can now select your new style.

With it in place, Claude will now replicate the suggested style in any query it is given. If it is a bit too full on, you can ask Claude to dial down the impersonation or equally the other way, putting more effort into its copy.