The characters of Skagwae have no curves, just straight line segments. The letter shapes themselves are fairly standard, but the choppy line segments used to construct them give the fonts a crude, unfinished look that is highlighted at large point sizes. At small point sizes the fonts are surprisingly legible.

The family has six styles: regular, bold, italic, bold italic, shadow, and shadow inside.  Shadowinside is very similar to regular but is spaced to be used in a layer with the shadow style. There are also monospaced versions of this font available elsewhere on FontSpring.