Visual pun

Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in cartoons such as Lost Consonants or The Far Side as well as in Dutch gable stones.

The arms of US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower are also canting.

Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, and Remedios Varo made extensive use of visual puns, as they played with shifting perceptions and reality.

Graphic artists (such as Maurits Cornelis Escher and Noma Bar) and photographers (such as Man Ray and Dora Maar) have used visual puns for a surreal or humorous effect, or to catch the attention of a viewer.

Some types of optical illusions also operate within the liminal zones of perception.

A gable stone in the village of Batenburg , Netherlands depicting a visual pun: Batenburg ( Dutch for "profit castle") is shown as a castle turning silver coins into more valuable gold coins , thus creating profit .