The stone-carving style of the staves
Staves are drawn in a stone-carving style: angular graphics, as if the sign were cut into a surface. It’s not just aesthetics — the hard geometry matches the nature of runes, which were originally carved into wood and stone, not painted with a brush.
Why exactly this
Runes are signs made for carving. Their shape was historically set by the tool: straight lines and angles are easy to cut into wood and stone, curves are not. That’s why the Futhark contains not a single rounded rune.
A soft calligraphic rendering would look pretty but contradict the material itself. The angular style is more honest.
What it gives in practice
- Staves are visually distinct from sigils — you won’t confuse them.
- The construction is legible: you can see where each rune sits and how they’re overlaid.
- The symbol reads well even small, on a phone screen.
Sigils are drawn differently
Softer and more fluid, because they have no fixed alphabet and no carving ancestry. The different visual languages are a deliberate decision: two tools should look like two tools.
You can ask for something else
If you want a different aesthetic — say so. «Make it thinner», «no background», «simpler». The symbol must please you: you won’t look at an unpleasant picture, and the whole practice falls apart.
The style can be discussed in the chat.