The fourteen styles
Your tree's outline is derived, like everything else here. Not the ornaments hung on it - the shape of the thing. These are the fourteen shapes it can take and the reading behind each one.
How one gets chosen
The styles are a ladder, not a score. Each rung asks one question about how an account works, in the order below, and the first rung that matches wins. Nothing is weighted against anything else and there is no total to maximise.
Two rungs sit outside the ladder. Below 52 active weeks there is not enough evidence to claim anything, and the tree is drawn as a
moss ball. Past that floor, an account that matches no rung gets moyogi - which is not a failure state, it is the tree
kodama drew before styles existed.
| # | Style | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ikadabuki | builds on other people's work |
| 2 | yoseUe | spread across many communities |
| 3 | bunjin | wrote one thing a lot of people use |
| 4 | sekijoju | one long-lived project |
| 5 | kabudachi | a genuine polyglot |
| 6 | sokan | two worlds at once |
| 7 | chokkan | a metronome |
| 8 | hokidachi | even and wide |
| 9 | neagari | a long history, quiet lately |
| 10 | fukinagashi | pulled away, but still here |
| 11 | sharimiki | came back from a long absence |
| 12 | shakan | one big codebase |
The styles
One specimen each, drawn at 2026-07-15 from an account written to be the shortest history that lands on that rung. Every one goes through the same selector a real account does.
kokedama - a bound moss ball
too new to claim anything
No pot at all: the roots are bound into a moss ball.
ikadabuki - a raft
builds on other people's work
Several trunks rising off one fallen stem, like a raft.
yoseUe - a forest planting
spread across many communities
A stand of graded trunks in one tray - a forest, not a tree.
bunjin - a literati
wrote one thing a lot of people use
A long sparse trunk with the foliage gathered high.
sekijoju - root over rock
one long-lived project
Roots gripping a stone. The receipt names the repository it stands for.
kabudachi - a clump
a genuine polyglot
A clump of trunks from a single root mass.
sokan - a twin trunk
two worlds at once
Two trunks from one base, one clearly the elder.
chokkan - a formal upright
a metronome
A formal upright: straight axis, no lean, symmetric crown.
hokidachi - a broom
even and wide
A broom - the trunk splits high into an even fan.
neagari - an exposed root
a long history, quiet lately
Roots flared clear of the soil, a long life above ground.
fukinagashi - a windswept
pulled away, but still here
Every branch swept to one side, as if by a prevailing wind.
sharimiki - deadwood
came back from a long absence
A bleached deadwood vein running the trunk beside the living wood.
shakan - a slant
one big codebase
A slant: the whole tree leaning off the vertical.
moyogi - an informal upright
nothing the ladder has a name for
The informal upright - gentle curves, and the tree kodama has always drawn.
What this is not
A style is a reading, not a ranking. There is no best one and
no rare one worth chasing: kokedama is not a lower score
than moyogi, and a forest is not worth more than a
slant. The ladder is ordered by how specific a claim is, so the
narrow structural questions get asked before the broad ones about rhythm -
that is all the order means.
Nothing here is purchasable, and nothing is random. The style is recomputed from public history every time the tree is drawn, so it can change when the way you work changes. Open the receipts for any account to see the figures behind its own tree, or the growth grammar for the thirteen signals that fill the shape in.