When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her sister to investigate. Cara is 8 times taller than Sam, but evidence soon points to players much smaller than either of them.

As Sam and his cross-scale colleagues pursue the case, it becomes apparent that Cara’s disappearance is linked to technology with the potential to reshape their whole society, and radically alter the balance of power between the scales.

https://www.gregegan.net/SCALE/SCALE.html

@gregeganSF The cover image here is the only other example I think I’ve seen where you read a word “radially”, rather than left to right, or in some other translational way. Does anyone know of any other examples? (The attached image is from http://www.segerman.org/autologlyphs.html)
Autologlyphs

@henryseg @gregeganSF This 2012 paper comes to mind: https://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/innovis/uploads/Publications/Publications/FatFonts.pdf. They render numbers using nested digits (and play other tricks to relate darkness to magnitude).
@henryseg @gregeganSF The overall word packing on the cover reminds of this recent technique from JMA: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17513472.2020.1855570
Immediate gestalt: shapes, typography and (quite irregular) shape packing

Instantaneously understanding the gestalt of thousands of words is achieved through the programmatic placement of the words and control of their presentation characteristics, such as size, repetiti...

Taylor & Francis