Marquesan patutiki is one of the densest tattoo traditions on Earth — a vocabulary of tiki faces, enata figures, and banded grids inked so thickly that 18th-century navigators described bearers as "almost entirely black." The pigment is candlenut charcoal in oil, reading as solid blue-black on skin.

This design system distills patutiki into a near-monochrome blue-black surface — dense geometric tessellation, mirrored symmetry, and minimal negative space — with a single candlenut-tan accent carrying highlights against the dark ink ground.