Upside downside up...

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Upside downside up...

While working on a wedding invitation for my sister (which is nearly complete, and rather pleasing), I spent a fair amount of time the last while playing with ambigrams. For those who do not know, this entails writing words in such a way that they read the same from above and below. The most well-known examples are those in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

Ambigrams provide an interesting mix of intellectual and artistic challenges, often with limited results. Nevertheless, I have managed to draw a few that worked, and will post them here over the next while.

The first (above) is probably the easiest to read