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 three styles: SkagwaeMono-Regular,  SkagwaeMono-Bold, SkagwaeMono-Rippled. The last is a distorted version of Skagwae-Regular with squiggly lines full of curves.