Ambigrams

[beccaelizabeth]

Ambigrams are nifty cool ways of writing words so they read the same whichever way up they are.

I like the one for The Society of Janus

Another Janus, two faced god.

I found 611 Google hits for Janus ambigram. I guess the ideas match.



I also found one for Ethan

sponsored google link leads to Wow Tattoos, who specialise in ambigrams. I can see how they'd be useful for tattoos, seeing as you're writing on a moving surface. I liked their 'karma' circle. I haven't poked around much yet. They have an Ethan too, but I don't think it looks very good. Obviously some words are harder than others. Many of them don't look to good to me.
There's two good versions of 'Faith' though.

I'm more impressed with the ones I can read before I read what they're supposed to say.

I just like the idea of a word that stays the same even when you turn it around. Pretty.

Of course the angel/devil ambigram is cool too. Words that turn into opposites, nifty. They have choice/destiny too. Also hope/faith and love/lust, which aren't so much opposite as related.



Words are nifty.

http://ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm
makes ambigrams of whatever you type in. But it isn't very pretty, methinks.

http://www.ambigram.net/
has a couple of pretty galleries. with words like Lion and Balance, and an interesting Adam in the guest gallery, plus a 'hard' that goes 'easy' when you click it, and a 'right/wrong'. And a 'Funny' face.

http://www2.iap.fr/users/esposito/ambigallery.html
has a bunch of links down the end. Haven't followed them yet.

http://www.scottkim.com/inversions/
pretty inversions


something made my computer lock up. sulk. I stop looking at these now because all the pages went away when I restarted.