Split Treed

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.”

Split Treed, Coonhound, term

 

If you’re a calligrapher or typesetter, you know that that the letter below is also a split font:

Split Treed, Coonhound, term

 

Zoom callers know this one. it’s a “split screen:”

Split Treed, Coonhound, term

 

 

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!)

Split Treed, Coonhound, term

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

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