shaped text
OAB Definition
prose in which words are typographically arranged into deliberate, recognizable shapes.
Linked Terms
RT
visual prose
Additional Resources
- Higgins, Dick. Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1987. p.187
- Letterform Archive: Shaped Text: An Aesthetic Whole
- Journal of Icon Studies Vol. 3: ‘Ransom of His Soul:’ Shaped Text as Medium and Mediator in Byzantium