Ambigram-o-matic

July 10, 2008 8:23 PM

Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point, most commonly right-side-up and upside-down. Given a word or symmetrically spaced phrase or sentence Ambigram.Matic will generate text that can be read in either direction
posted by Mitheral (14 comments total)

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posted by yhbc at 8:32 PM on July 10

SATOR AREPO WUZ HERE.
posted by Burhanistan at 8:33 PM on July 10 [1 favorite]

My first name (Jordan) is exceptionally easy for this kind of thing:

A capital J to a rounded n
A tailed o to an a with a shortened stem
A curlicue r to a slightly open d

It made things kind of boring when my classmates discovered ambigrams and spent the better part of study hall puzzling out a way of making their own names work.
posted by Rhaomi at 8:43 PM on July 10

Scott Kim is a master of this (he made the cube sgi logo but not the sun one, Vaughn Pratt did that)
posted by oonh at 8:52 PM on July 10

Man, those are some ugly ambigrams.

You want pretty ambigrams? Go to Scott Kim's site.
posted by painquale at 8:53 PM on July 10

Aw, scooped again.
posted by painquale at 8:53 PM on July 10

I made one for the holidays a few years back.
posted by m-a-s-o-n at 9:16 PM on July 10

I wouldn't worry too much about being scooped, painquale.

Sorry Mitheral.
posted by Navelgazer at 9:36 PM on July 10

Huh...neat.
posted by uosuaq at 9:37 PM on July 10 [1 favorite]

John Langdon work is kinda better.
posted by zouhair at 11:48 PM on July 10

uostolj



--I'm jealous of uosuaq
posted by flotson at 2:22 AM on July 11

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posted by flotson at 2:38 AM on July 11

More impressive, less configurable.
posted by orthogonality at 3:26 AM on July 11

Navelgazer writes "Sorry Mitheral."

Ugh, a double. Why the heck didn't search find the domain string.
posted by Mitheral at 5:59 AM on July 11