Calligram
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A calligram is a set of words arranged in such a way that it forms a thematically related image. It can be a poem, a phrase, a portion of scripture, or a single word; the visual arrangement can rely o
Calligram about the Eiffel Tower by Guillaume Apollinaire
Large calligram at the Valencian Museum of Ethnology
"Biblical Cosmography", large calligram of the Bible in Latin by Gianluca Bosi
A calligrapher at work on a school wall
Ambigram
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An ambigram is a calligraphic composition of glyphs that can yield different meanings depending on the orientation of observation. Most ambigrams are visual palindromes that rely on some kind of symme
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…José Juan Tablada wrote a book of Spanish-language calligrams entitled Li-Po y otros poemas. Ambigram Concrete poetry…
Sator square (word square and palindrome) with the letters S and N in mirror writing.
Rotational ambigram Puzzle / The end by Peter Newell designed in 1893.
![Mirror ambigram ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ (Wash your sins, not only your face, in Ancient Greek) in the monastery Panagia Malevi [el].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Ambigram_palindrome_%CE%9D%CE%99%CE%A8%CE%9F%CE%9D%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%9F%CE%9C%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%91%CE%A4%CE%91%CE%9C%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%9F%CE%9D%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%9F%CE%A8%CE%99%CE%9D_%28Wash_your_sins%2C_not_only_your_face%2C_in_Greek%29.jpg/500px-Ambigram_palindrome_%CE%9D%CE%99%CE%A8%CE%9F%CE%9D%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%9F%CE%9C%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%91%CE%A4%CE%91%CE%9C%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%9F%CE%9D%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%9F%CE%A8%CE%99%CE%9D_%28Wash_your_sins%2C_not_only_your_face%2C_in_Greek%29.jpg)
Mirror ambigram ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ (Wash your sins, not only your face, in Ancient Greek) in the monastery Panagia Malevi [el].
Ambigrams published in The Strand Magazine, June 1908.