The “James” part is old, but somehow I didn’t make an ambigram of “Lin” before (although it also looks like “417”).
May 28, 2018 update:
I made an updated version that tries to make “Lin” look less like “Liin” and gave it a black background.
More ambigrams, this time of coworkers’ names:
- Lisa
- Walter
- plangdale/alex. Philip Langdale (whose user ID is “plangdale”) and Alex share an office. Alex has the inner seat. (And thank goodness for Photoshop’s polar distortion filter.)
I’ve discovered that John Langdon is releasing a second edition of his WordPlay book which has a new section about how to create ambigrams. I’m slightly annoyed since I already own the first edition, and it’s signed and personalized, so I can’t exactly sell it or give it away. Well, at least my first edition is a hardcover.
Bleah. I guess I’m feeling narcissistic. Variations of my ambigram:
On a related note, other ambigram sites I’ve come across:
- Ambigram.Matic (it does an amazing job with “NOON”!)
- Inversions by Scott Kim
- Ambigrams by Kevin Pease
John Langdon’s ambigram site inspired me to try to make ambigrams of my name and of some of my friends’ names.
Most of those could be refined quite a bit more.