Out of nowhere this morning I thought of Scott Kim and his inversions, or as Douglas Hofstadter called 'em, ambigrams. An inversion is a word that reads differently according to its orientation. Usually, one word is placed on top of its upside down version along a horizontal line. Kim draws the letters in such a way that they can stand for two different letters just by flipping them. There's lots of folks making ambigrams as a quick googling soon proves. Somehow, it all seems to tie in with the jumbled letters thread.
[Addendum 10/30/03: Typographica had an entry on ambigrams a week before this one, but I swear I hadn't seen it. Oh, well. Via mirabilis dot ca.]
Posted by jim at October 28, 2003 07:50 AM | TrackBack