The Gallery — Forms Worth Keeping
Every attested original script in the corpus, as inspiration: the name, what it means, when the form was written, and a print-ready reference card to send your artist. Filter by tradition; download the PNG for the stencil, the SVG to edit.
The Signs, One by One
Individual signs with their attested names — from the medieval sign lists and rune poems, via the corpus's per-sign provenance. The "rune meaning" tables circulating online are twentieth-century occultism; what you see here is what the sources actually say. A sign alone can be a beautiful, honest mark.
Famous Errors, Corrected
The five tattoo mistakes the internet repeats most — each with the correction. If your design is on this page, you just saved yourself a very permanent lesson.
What We Can and Cannot Verify
What "attested" means here. A green verdict means the exact string you pasted appears in the PuniCodex corpus of verified original scripts — forms drawn from inscriptions, manuscripts, and the standard scholarly editions, each with per-sign provenance. It does not mean the form is the only correct one; traditions vary by period and region.
What "not in corpus" means. Only that we cannot vouch for it. Absence is not proof of error — the corpus covers the mythological canon, not every name ever written. If your script matters to you, ask a scholar of the language, not a generator.
What we never do. We do not invent "close enough" forms, we do not write your name into an alphabet it never had, and we do not call modern conventions ancient. Where a reading is a modern convention — Egyptian vowels above all — we say so on the card.