Calligram

A calligram is a text visually arranged in a way that it forms an image associated with the text's contents. It can be a poem, a phrase, or a single word; the visual arrangement can rely on certain use of the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting, for instance along non-parallel and curved text lines, or in shaped paragraphs. The image created by the words illustrates the text by expressing visually what it says, or something closely associated; it can also, on purpose, show something contradictory with the text or otherwise misleading.

Guillaume Apollinaire was a famous calligram writer and author of a book of poems called Calligrammes.

Calligram of a tiger in Arabic script

Calligram of a snake in Georgian script

Calligram about the Eiffel Tower by Guillaume Apollinaire

Biggest Calligram in the World, part of the permanent exhibition of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology.

In 1834 a French court ordered the satiric newspaper Le Charivari to publish on its front page a judgement entered against it for having carried a drawing of King Louis-Philippe in the shape of a pear. The newspaper printed the document as instructed - but in the shape of a pear.

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