From "The Amazing Treasure Trove of Bill Cunningham/Here comes a big new picture book, organized by decade and with more than 700 photographs" (NYT).
I bought the book, "Bill Cunningham: On the Street: Five Decades of Iconic Photography."
What is the word for writing a word in a way that expresses its meaning? It was a popular form of humor, years ago. I'm talking about the accidentally elusive representation of "elusiveness" in the screenshot text above. For example, you might write the word "fancy" in letters that have curlicues. Does it seem like something that was done in Mad Magazine? It's almost the same thing as what you see in the best of Saul Steinberg (from "The Inspector"). Depicting "now or never":
This is a somewhat different humor idea from Steinberg (that is, if you know the word I'm looking for, I don't think it's the word for this):
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Presently and Needs Further Study would do better for the now and never.
The phenomenon would be an accidental self-reference, turning up as a visual literary effect.
Autological/Autologlyph?
I usually find “who’s they?” a bullshit response. You know who “they” are.
At $65, I’ll probably wait for it to show up in a 2nd hand shop.
Hey white supremacy, you’re epidermis is showing.
We hold these truths to be self evident...
Please don’t use the *N word,
Naye,
there I go using the *N word.
( I think the polarity of the visual depiction is reversed )
Can one person have Life, Liberty and Happiness.
or,
just choose the pursuit ?
Until death do me apart !
Thank you redundancy.
Cunningham lived in a one-room apartment that was crammed with boxes of negatives. His bathroom was down the hall. He lived to take pictures of fashions on the street.
I think there is a word for words like “sneeze” that sound like what they describe.
I think one of my first books was “Animal Alphabet.” S for serpent. E for Elephant (hey, it works if it the elephant sits down and extends his trunk.)
Anybody have “phonics” in first grade? I suspect our hostess did.
This is why the iconic Philadelphia “LOVE” never made sense to me.
What message is it saying to break the word in two and tilt the O.
Now on the flip side and getting more into a logo, the FedEx with the hidden arrow says it iall (and no Bud does not!)
What is the word for writing a word
In a way that expresses its meaning?
Mullet Hieroglyphics?
Short on the font, wrong on the facts.
"What message is it saying to break the word in two and tilt the O."
You're supposed to see the negative space (inside the O... quite lewd, really).
onomatopoeia
“the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.” Dictionary.com
“All words which were spontaneously acquired seemed to be instances of onomatopoeia.”
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 358, NOVEMBER 11, 1882
Optictopoeia would be the visual equivalent based on my extensive three minute study of Greek. Way too ugly to be the word you are looking for.
Back in the days of Steam Television, on the Gary Moore morning show, they would play a game called "Onomatopoeia". Somebody would make an odd noise, and then the contestant would have to make up an onomatopoetic word for it. No money changed hands.
Rebus is getting close to the word you want. Onomatopoeia is for sound.
So, a visual onomonopia. The term “onomonopia fonts” seems to return good results.
As I recall, a text printed in the colors red green and blue with words red green and blue, but not matched to the ink color, is very difficult to read when you're asked to name the actual word colors and not what the word says.
I suppose you could make flash cards and time yourself. Print red green and blue on 9 cards in red green and blue magic marker, 3 colors for each color word.
View of the World From 9th Ave.
so rich.
Dick with an enormous I
I never really understood why Kliban's Barf Bold script didn't catch on.
Narr
So expressive!
Font-omatopoeia?
Cunningham was the last decent human being at NYT. I used to walk by him scouting for fashions. He never took my picture as far as I know. Not sure why he would
Radio Japan pronounces it "onomonotopia," in a story about how infants pick up language.
Occasionally a guy with no accent at all encounters a word he's never heard and takes a stab at it.
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