The mark consists of a black background, taller than it is wide, upon which is depicted a skull with jaw appearing centrally facing straight ahead, which gives the perspective of the skull being rested on its jaw and occipital plate (facing slightly upwards) as if set on an altar. The cheek of the skull to the viewer's right has a tear below the orbit, the forehead of the skull is marked with a simple-lined christian cross, with diagonal lines eminating from each corner of the joint. The skull has above and behind it a sacre coeur, the sacred heart, which contains a cross at the top of it, stylized barbed wire around it, and flames eminating from behind the cross. The sacre coeur is surrounded by lines eminating from behind it, giving the appearance of beams of light. Underneath the entire graphic are the words "SANTA MUERTE" which have below them, in a printed gang-graffiti-like script, the words "BARRIO SANTO" which have customized elements such as an oversized "B" starting "Barrio" and "O" ending "Santo" which appear to bookend the words above them, as well as vertical lines within spaces inside the "B", the "R"s and the "O"s, and the "I"s dotted with an "x".