ambigram

Definitions

A calligraphic design that may be read as the same word or phrase (or sometimes different words or phrases) when oriented in two different ways, usually when reflected along a vertical or horizontal axis or when rotated through 180 degrees.

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“Two nonvisual factors provide⟳ dissymmetry and prevent⟳ the ambigram from existing in a static equilibrium; most of the letters in an ambigram metamorphose into other letters when reversed; and each of those accompanying sentences provides a different idea of the word's meaning.”

“1997, Research⟳ and Education Networking, Volume 8, Issues 1-6, page 290, An ambigram is a word that reads the same right-side-up and upside-down. MOW is a natural ambigram, for instance, but any word can be flipped if the right graphic artist gets his hands on it.”

“Next, I imagine⟳ that Switch⟳ #2 causes me every single weekend (and every other spare⟳ moment as well) to elect⟳, instead of designing ambigrams or working hard on my book about being a strange loop, to spend⟳ hours on end⟳ watching professional football games on a huge-screen television and delightedly ogling all the busty babes in the beer ads.”

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