Pedant alert

The word that fits the image is "Mesostic"


Mr Red,

I don't think that the finger post, shown in your first link, qualifies as a mesostic. A mesostic has horizontal lines of text in which letters are picked out to form the vertical word.

A mestostic, to my mind, is just a lazy man's acrostic. The text is pushed left and right to force the letters of the vertical word into line. That, and the need to capitalise the selected letters (and thus leave the first letter of the line uncapitalised) to identify them, makes the whole thing inelegant.

The elegance of your finger post example is the L is the centre letter of each word, giving it a balanced cruciform shape. It could just as easily crossed on the E but that would have given an unbalanced motif, more like a gallows than a cross.

DC