If you studied serigraphy as a fine art, you already know that the image below (where one color “blends” into another) is often called a “split font.”
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If you’re a calligrapher or typesetter, you know that that the letter below is also a split font:
Zoom callers know this one. it’s a “split screen:”
When dogs – usually coonhounds – tree on separate trees from each other, it is referred to as being split treed. We couldn’t find a photo of it, so we made our own (use your imagination!)
The term is mentioned eight times in the United Kennel Club’s official coonhound rulebook.
Images: Left photo by Kylie Lang Elbin from iStock photo; right photo of a Walker coonhound by © Dale Hainer | Dreamstime