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Common Roofing Styles and Shapes. There are 2 main kinds of shapes that a roof can assume; gable or hipped. The difference between them lies in both the slope-line of the sides of the roof, and the roof-to-wall junction. Gable shaped roofs are defined by the meeting of two straight slopes from the ridge of the roof, falling all the way to its eave.
There are a few different style variations of hipped roofs. 1  These styles include: 2  Simple Hip - This is probably the most common style. There is a ridge over a portion of the roof, creating two triangle sides and two polygon sides. 3  Pyramid Hip - Four sides shaped like triangles meet up at one single point at the top. Cross Hipped â This is kind of like putting two hipped roofs together. The point where the two sections meet up creates a seem.