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Animation of a half-turn ambigram of the word ambigram, with 180-degree rotational symmetry [1]. An ambigram is a calligraphic composition of glyphs (letters, numbers, symbols or other shapes) that can yield different meanings depending on the orientation of observation.
Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰; pinyin: Xú Bīng; born 1955) is a Chinese artist who served as vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.He is known for his printmaking skills and installation art, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world.
While the name suggests a radial or circular form, they are usually presented in a square or rectangular shape. The 1 pixel space applies between the letters here as well. The major differences between a linear and a spiral Square Kufic calligraphy are Spiral has a minimum of two and up to four datums; linear only has a single datum, and
An example of Xu Bing's 'Square Word' calligraphy, combining Latin characters into forms that resemble Chinese characters. The word pictured is 'wiki'. Typographic ligatures are used in a form of contemporary art, [53] as can be illustrated by Chinese artist Xu Bing's work in which he combines Latin letters to form characters that resemble ...
Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...
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 on certain use of the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting, for instance along non-parallel and curved text lines, or in shaped paragraphs. The ...
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of penmanship and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It is a highly stylized and structured form of handwriting that follows artistic conventions and is often used for Islamic religious texts , architecture , and decoration . [ 2 ]
Some calligraphers and hand-letterers say that calligraphy created with brush pens becomes lettering or faux-calligraphy, [15] but others believe that the approach used to create the letters is more important than the tools used to do so. [1] [16] Typography is the use of type in a repeating system, where each instance of the same letter looks ...