Ambigram - Creating Ambigrams

Creating Ambigrams

There are no universal guidelines for creating ambigrams, and there are different ways of approaching problems. A number of books suggest methods for creation (including WordPlay and Eye Twisters).

Computerized methods to automatically create ambigrams have been developed. The earliest, the 'Ambimatic' created in 1996, was letter-based and used a database of 351 letter glyphs in which each letter was mapped to another. This generator could only map a word to itself or to another word that was the same length: because of this, most of the generated ambigrams were of poor quality. In 2007, software developer Mark Hunter developed the ambigram generator at FlipScript.com (and licensed to other companies). It uses a more complex method of creating ambigrams, with a database containing more than 5 million curves, and multiple lettering styles.