A quick browse through my fonts folder revealed a number of solid potential starting points. With this in mind, old english or cursive letters make for prime candidates. When you’re working with the kind of duality that ambigrams involve, having room to turn leftover pieces into flourishes and swooshes makes your job much easier. Ornate fonts tend to have lots of superfluous detail that isn’t true to the way you would actually write the letter, while still having easily identifiable letters.
Since ambigrams letters have to serve multiple purposes, it’s often the case that more ornate letter forms work the best. The big shortcut is that we can just modify existing fonts and save ourselves a lot of trouble. Step 2: Choose a FontĪs I said above, creating an ambigram from scratch can take a lot of work.
The really nice part about designing your letter pairings is that you only need to create around half as many of them as there are letters because you just reuse them for the other half of the word.
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