Tapered Baguette-Cut

A tapered baguette is a straight baguette with one end narrower than the other, and that single difference changes its job entirely. Where a straight baguette lines up in a channel, a tapered one has direction: set with the wide end inward, it steps down along the shoulder of a ring and funnels the eye toward whatever sits in the middle.

They are bought in pairs for exactly that reason, one for each side. Cut in steps like their straight cousins, so they read as clean planes rather than sparkle. Standard millimeter sizes.