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I am looking for a word that describes a drawing of a word which looks like itself – almost like an autological word, but different because the word describes the image it is drawn within rather than itself.
E.g., drawing "fire" in a fiery blaze.
Here are some example picture that this word should be able to describe:
As you can see, both these drawings are _________
After being pointed in the right direction by bib in the comments, I found out about the word autologlyph, which seems to fit my purpose:
An autologlyph is an image that describes itself (perhaps loosely). [1]
The name, 'autologlyph' is with reference to autological words, and they could equally be called 'autological images'. [2]
http://www.segerman.org/autologlyphs.html
Here are some images which are given as examples, they all seem to conform to what I was wanting to be able to describe with such a word:
(source: cubeupload.com)
